The Road Not Taken A Selection of Robert Frost's Poems

by Frost, Robert; Untermeyer, Louis; Untermeyer, Louis; Cosgrave, II, John O'Hara

• ISBN13: 9780805069839
• ISBN10: 0805069836
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Holt Paperbacks

Summary

The best-loved poems from one of American literature's most towering figures No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From "The Road Not Taken" to "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," he refined and even defined our sense of what poetry is and what it can do. T. S. Eliot judged him "the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet now living," and he is the only writer in history to have been awarded four Pulitzer Prizes. Henry Holt is proud to announce the republication of four editions of Frost's most beloved work for a new generation of poets and readers. In this brilliant selection of Frost's classic poems, students and scholars alike will encounter a body of work central to American culture.

Author Biography

Robert Frost (1874-1963) is widely regarded as one of America's finest poets. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on four different occasions, and also served as Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress.

Table of Contents

A List of Books	ii
Robert Frost
Robert Frost: An Appreciation	vii
The Poet's Invitation: The Pasture	1	(4)
1
The Tuft of Flowers	5	(3)
Blueberries	8	(5)
Home Burial	13	(7)
The Witch of Coos	20	(7)
Paul's Wife	27	(7)
Ghost House	34	(2)
At Woodward's Gardens	36	(2)
The Vindictives	38	(4)
Wild Grapes	42	(4)
The Code	46	(5)
The Bearer of Evil Tidings	51	(2)
The Fear	53	(5)
Snow	58	(17)
2
The Housekeeper	75	(10)
A Hundred Collars	85	(8)
The Star-Splitter	93	(7)
The Hill Wife
Loneliness	96	(1)
House Fear	97	(1)
The Smile	97	(1)
The Oft-Repeated Dream	98	(1)
The Impulse	98	(2)
The Telephone	100	(1)
Revelation	101	(1)
Going for Water	101	(1)
A Line-Storm Song	102	(2)
Willful Homing	104	(3)
Birches	107	(2)
Mowing	109	(3)
Mending Wall	112	(3)
The Mountain	115	(6)
Brown's Descent	121	(4)
The Vanishing Red	125	(1)
To the Thawing Wind	126	(1)
A Lone Striker	127	(3)
Two Tramps in Mud Time	130	(4)
Love and a Question	134	(2)
An Old Man's Winter Night	136	(2)
The Gum-Gatherer	138	(2)
The Investment	140	(1)
The Figure in the Doorway	141	(1)
To a Young Wretch	142	(2)
The Wood-Pile	144	(4)
The Death of the Hired Man	148	(9)
3
On Going Unnoticed	157	(1)
West-running Brook	158	(3)
A Patch of Old Snow	161	(1)
A Time to Talk	162	(1)
A Boundless Moment	162	(1)
Bereft	163	(1)
A Winter Eden	163	(2)
Hyla Brook	165	(1)
The Flower Boat	166	(1)
The Census-Taker	167	(3)
A Brook in the City	170	(2)
Evening in a Sugar Orchard	172	(1)
The Onset	173	(1)
Spring Pools	174	(1)
In a Disused Graveyard	175	(1)
Sand Dunes	176	(1)
The Birthplace	177	(1)
For Once, Then, Something	178	(1)
A Serious Step Lightly Taken	179	(1)
Tree at My Window	180	(1)
Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight	181	(2)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	183	(1)
4
Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter	184	(1)
On a Bird Singing in Its Sleep	185	(1)
The Oven Bird	186	(1)
Our Singing Strength	187	(3)
A Minor Bird	190	(1)
Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same	190	(2)
A Blue Ribbon at Amesbury	192	(2)
A Drumlin Woodchuck	194	(3)
The White-Tailed Hornet	197	(2)
Waspish	199	(1)
Departmental	200	(2)
Fireflies in the Garden	202	(1)
Design	202	(1)
Canis Major	203	(2)
Two Look at Two	205	(2)
The Cow in Apple Time	207	(2)
The Runaway	209	(1)
The Bear	210	(2)
5
The Hardship of Accounting	212	(1)
Not All There	212	(1)
The Wrights' Biplane	213	(1)
Precaution	213	(1)
In a Poem	213	(1)
It Bids Pretty Fair	214	(1)
A Cloud Shadow	214	(1)
The Secret Sits	214	(1)
6
Choose Something Like a Star	215	(2)
Our Hold on the Planet	217	(1)
Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length	218	(1)
Triple Bronze	219	(1)
I Could Give All to Time	220	(1)
My November Guest	221	(1)
Storm Fear	222	(1)
Wind and Window Flower	222	(1)
October	223	(1)
Good Hours	224	(1)
Pea Brush	225	(1)
I Will Sing You One-O	226	(3)
To Earthward	229	(2)
La Noche Triste	231	(5)
Song of the Wave	236	(2)
My Butterfly	238	(3)
The Need of Being Versed in Country Things	241	(1)
The Sound of the Trees	242	(1)
In Hardwood Groves	243	(1)
Nothing Gold Can Stay	243	(1)
After Apple-Picking	244	(3)
The Grindstone	247	(3)
The Kitchen Chimney	250	(2)
Gathering Leaves	252	(1)
A Leaf Treader	253	(1)
A Hillside Thaw	254	(1)
On a Tree Fallen Across the Road	255	(1)
A Passing Glimpse	256	(1)
Dust of Snow	256	(1)
Putting in the Seed	257	(1)
The Line-Gang	258	(1)
Fire and Ice	259	(1)
Riders	260	(1)
The Master Speed	261	(1)
The Gift Outright	262	(1)
A Considerable Speck	263	(1)
The Silken Tent	264	(1)
Good-bye and Keep Cold	265	(2)
A Prayer in Spring	267	(1)
Into My Own	267	(1)
Come In	268	(2)
The Road Not Taken	270	(3)
Index of First Lines	273	(5)
Index of Titles	278