The Early Poetry and Criticisms of Robert Frost

All of Robert Frost's verse published from 1909 to 1920. Includes A Boy's Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval, and several other poems, with an active table of contents, correct spacing/breaks, and automatic (poetic) indentation for any size frame or font.

Appended to this edition are two critical reviews by Ezra Pound and Edward Garnett that, respectively, offer an interesting contrast of analysis between the Imagist and Realist concepts of 20th century American poetry. With characteristic brevity and compact language, Pound states Frost's work is "without sham and without affectation," seemingly dismissing this "homely [and] pleasing" poet as some passing provincial fancy, were it not for the occassional surfacing of "a beautiful simile." Garnett, far more generous with his praise, offers extensive excerpts and insights that highlight "[Frost's] creative vision, springing from New England soil, and calmly handing on the best and oldest American tradition...at variance with the cosmopolitan clamour of New York."

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CONTENTS:

A Boy's Will:

INTO MY OWN
GHOST HOUSE
MY NOVEMBER GUEST
LOVE AND A QUESTION
A LATE WALK
STARS
STORM FEAR
WIND AND WINDOW FLOWER
TO THE THAWING WIND
A PRAYER IN SPRING
FLOWER-GATHERING
ROSE POGONIAS
ASKING FOR ROSES
WAITING—AFIELD AT DUSK
IN A VALE
A DREAM PANG
IN NEGLECT
THE VANTAGE POINT
MOWING
GOING FOR WATER
REVELATION
THE TRIAL BY EXISTENCE
IN EQUAL SACRIFICE
THE TUFT OF FLOWERS
SPOILS OF THE DEAD
PAN WITH US
THE DEMIURGE'S LAUGH
NOW CLOSE THE WINDOWS
IN HARDWOOD GROVES
A LINE-STORM SONG
OCTOBER
MY BUTTERFLY
RELUCTANCE

North of Boston:

THE PASTURE
MENDING WALL
THE DEATH OF THE HIRED MAN
THE MOUNTAIN
A HUNDRED COLLARS
HOME BURIAL
THE BLACK COTTAGE
BLUEBERRIES
A SERVANT TO SERVANTS
AFTER APPLE-PICKING
THE CODE
THE GENERATIONS OF MEN
THE HOUSEKEEPER
THE FEAR
THE SELF-SEEKER
THE WOOD-PILE
GOOD HOURS

Mountain Interval:

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
CHRISTMAS TREES
AN OLD MAN'S WINTER NIGHT
A PATCH OF OLD SNOW
IN THE HOME STRETCH
THE TELEPHONE
MEETING AND PASSING
HYLA BROOK
THE OVEN BIRD
BOND AND FREE
BIRCHES
PEA BRUSH
PUTTING IN THE SEED
A TIME TO TALK
THE COW IN APPLE TIME
AN ENCOUNTER
RANGE-FINDING
THE HILL WIFE
THE BONFIRE
A GIRL'S GARDEN
THE EXPOSED NEST
"OUT, OUT—"
BROWN'S DESCENT OR THE WILLY-NILLY SLIDE
THE GUM-GATHERER
THE LINE-GANG
THE VANISHING RED
SNOW
THE SOUND OF THE TREES

Other Poems:

THE FLOWER BOAT
NOT TO KEEP
THE AXE-HELVE
THE RUNAWAY
TO E.T.
FRAGMENTARY BLUE
PLACE FOR THIRD
GOOD-BY AND KEEP COLD
FOR ONCE, THEN, SOMETHING
FIRE AND ICE
WILD GRAPES
THE VALLEY'S SINGING DAY
THE NEED OF BEING VERSED IN COUNTRY THINGS
THE LOCKLESS DOOR
PLOWMEN