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Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays (Library of America) Hardcover – October 1, 1995

by Robert Frost (Author), Richard Poirier (Editor), Mark Richardson (Editor)
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Justly celebrated at home and abroad, Robert Frost is perhaps America’s greatest twentieth-century poet and a towering figure in American letters. From the publication of his first collections, A Boy’s Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914), Frost was recognized as a poet of unique power and formal skill, and the enduring significance of his work has been acknowledged by each subsequent generation. His poetry ranges from deceptively simply pastoral lyrics and genial, vernacular genre pieces to darker meditations, complex and ironic.

Here, based on extensive research into his manuscripts and published work, is the first authoritative and truly comprehensive collection of his writings. Brought together for the first time in a Library of America single volume is all the major poetry, a generous selection of uncollected poems, all of Frost’s dramatic writing, and the most extensive gathering of his prose writings ever published, several of which are printed here for the first time.

The core of this collection is the 1949 Complete Poems of Robert Frost, the last collection supervised by Frost himself. This version of the poems is free of unauthorized editorial changes introduced into subsequent editions. Also included is In the Clearing (1962), Frost’s final volume of poetry. Verse drawn from letters, articles, pamphlets, and journals makes up the largest selection of uncollected poems ever assembled, including nearly two dozen beautiful early works printed for the first time. Also gathered here are all the dramatic works: three plays and two verse masques.

The unprecedented prose section includes more than three times as many items as any other collection available. It is rich and diverse, presenting many newly discovered or rediscovered pieces. Especially unusual items include Frost’s contribution to John F. Kennedy’s inauguration and two fascinating 1959 essays on “The Future of Man.” Several manuscript items are published here for the first time, including the essays “‘Caveat Poeta’” and “The Way There,” Frost’s remarks on being appointed poetry consultant to the Library of Congress in 1958, the preface to a proposed new edition of North of Boston, and many others. A selection of letters represents all of Frost’s important comments about prosody, poetics, style, and his theory of “sentence sounds.”

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
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Never before has there been a more comprehensive collection of Frost in a single volume. Included are all of the plays, a generous selection of prose, all collected poems, and 94 uncollected poems, as well as 17 poems that were previously unpublished. The 1949 Complete Poems is the principle source for the poetry. In The Clearing (1962), as the only subsequent volume Frost published, is given a separate contents entry. Sources are given for all published and unpublished work. The 45 pages of notes cover the "significant differences" between first editions and the Complete Poems, including deleted dedications, notes and dates, and changes in wording. The notes also include helpful definitions and frequent attribution of quotation. Of the prose we are told that most of what is included "bears directly on [Frost's] work as a poet." Many of these texts are based on significant new editorial work by Richardson. Recommended for most collections.-Steven R. Ellis, Pennsylvania State Univ. Libs., State Colleg.-- work as a poet." Many of these texts are based on significant new editorial work by Richardson. Recommended for most collections.
Steven R. Ellis, Pennsylvania State Univ. Libs., State College
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A-wishing Well
Accidentally On Purpose
Acquainted With The Night
After Apple Picking
Afterflakes
The Aim Was Song
All Revelation
America Is Hard To See
An Answer
Any Size We Please
The Armful
Asking For Roses
Assurance
Astrometaphysical
At Woodward's Gardens
Atmosphere; Inscription For A Garden Wall
Auspex
Away!
The Ax-helve
The Bad Island -- Easter
The Bear
The Bearer Of Evil Tidings
A Bed In The Barn
Beech
Bereft
Beyond Words
Birches
The Birds Do Thus
The Birthplace
The Black Cottage
A Blue Ribbon At Amesbury
Blue-butterfly Day
Blueberries
Boeotian
Bond And Free
The Bonfire
A Boundless Moment
The Broken Drought
A Brook In The City
Brown's Descent, Or, The Willy-nilly Slide
Build Soil -- A Political Pastoral
Bursting Rapture
But Outer Space
A Cabin In The Clearing; For Alfred Edwards
Caesar's Lost Transport Ships
Canis Major
Carpe Diem
A Case For Jefferson
The Census-taker
Choose Something Like A Star
Christmas Trees; A Christmas Circular Letter
Class Hymn
Clear And Colder
Clear And Colder; Boston Common
A Cliff Dwelling
Closed For Good
Closed For Good
A Cloud Shadow
The Cocoon
The Code - Heroics
Come In
A Considerable Speck (microscopic)
A Correction
The Courage To Be New
The Cow In Apple Time
The Cow's In The Corn; A One-act Irish Play In Rhyme
The Death Of The Hired Man
The Demiurge's Laugh
Departmental
Desert Places
Design
Despair
Devotion
Directive
The Discovery Of The Madeiras; A Rhyme Of Hackluyt
Does No One At All Ever Feel This Way In The Least?
The Door In The Dark
Down The Brook
The Draft Horse
A Dream Of Julius Caesar
A Dream Pang
A Drumlin Woodchuck
Dust In The Eyes
Dust Of Snow
The Egg And The Machine
An Empty Threat
An Encounter
Ends
An Equalizer
Escapist -- Never
Etherealizing
Evening In A Sugar Orchard
Evensong
Evil Tendencies Cancel
The Exposed Nest
The Falls
The Fear
The Fear Of God
The Fear Of Man
The Figure In The Doorway
Fire And Ice
Fireflies In The Garden
Fish-leap Fall
Five Nocturnes: 1. The Night Light
Five Nocturnes: 2. Were I In Trouble
Five Nocturnes: 3. Bravado
Five Nocturnes: 4. On Making Certain Anything Has Happened
Five Nocturnes: 5. In The Long Night
The Flood
The Flower Boat
Flower Guidance
Flower-gathering
For Allan %who Wanted To See How I Wrote A Poem
For Once, Then, Something
For Travelers Going Sidereal
Forest Flowers
A Fountain, A Bottle, A Donkey's Ears, And Some Books
Four-room Shack Aspiring High
Fragmentary Blue
The Freedom Of The Moon
From Iron: Tools And Weapons; To Ahmed S. Bokhari
From Plane To Plane
Gathering Leaves
Genealogical
Ghost House
The Gift Outright
The Gift Outright
Gift Outright Of 'the Gift Outright'; With Some Preliminary History ..
A Girl's Garden
God's Garden
Going For Water
The Gold Hesperidee
Good Hours
Good Relief
Good-by And Keep Cold
Greece
The Grindstone
The Gum Gatherer
Haec Fabula Docet
Hannibal
Happiness Makes Up In Height For What It Lacks In Length
The Hardship Of Accounting
Her Husband Gave Her A Ring
The Hill Wife: House Fear
The Hill Wife: Loneliness
The Hill Wife: The Impulse
The Hill Wife: The Oft-repeated Dream
The Hill Wife: The Smile
A Hillside Thaw
Home Burial
The Housekeeper
How Hard It Is To Keep From Being King When It's In You ...
A Hundred Collars
Hyla Brook
I Am A Mede And Persian
I Could Give All To Time
I Only Go
I Will Sing You One-o
Immigrants
An Importer
In A Disused Graveyard
In A Glass Of Cider
In A Poem
In A Vale
In Dives' Dive
In England
In Equal Sacrifice
In Hardwood Groves
In Neglect
In The Clearing: Frontispiece
In The Home Stretch
In Time Of Cloudburst
In Winter In The Woods Alone
The Inequities Of Debt
Innate Helium
Into My Own
The Investment
Iota Subscript
Iris By Night
It Bids Pretty Fair
It Is The Year Two Thousand
It Takes All Sorts Of Indoor And Outdoor Schooling
The Kitchen Chimney
Kitty Hawk
La Noche Triste
The Last Mowing
The Last Word Of A Bluebird; As Told To A Child
A Late Walk
The Later Minstrel
A Leaf-treader
Leaves Compared With Flowers
The Lesson For Today
Let Congress Do It
Let's Not Think
Letter To Leonard Bacon
Letter To Louis Untermeyer, 1931
Letter To Louis Untermeyer, 1944
Letter To Stark Young
The Line-gang
A Line-storm Song
Lines Written In Dejection On The Eve Of Great Success
The Literate Farmer And The Planet Venus
A Little Kingdom
Locked Out; As Told To A Child
The Lockless Door
Lodged
A Lone Striker
Looking For A Sunset Bird In Winter
A Loose Mountain (telescopic)
The Lost Faith
The Lost Follower
Lost In Heaven
Love And A Question
Love Being All One
The Lovely Shall Be Choosers
Lowes Took The Obvious Position
Lucretius Versus The Lake Poets
A Man Is As Tall As His Height
Maple
Marx And Engels
A Masque Of Mercy
A Masque Of Reason
The Master Speed
Meeting And Passing
Mending Wall
The Middleness Of The Road
The Middletown Murder
Midsummer Birds
The Milky Way Is A Cowpath
The Mill City
A Minor Bird
Misgiving
A Missive Missile
A Mood Apart
Moon Compasses
The Most Of It
The Mountain
Mowing
My Butterfly
My Giving
My November Guest
A Nature Note
The Need Of Being Versed In Country Things
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep
Never Again Would Birds' Song Be The Same
A Never Naught Song
New Grief
New Hampshire
No Holy Wars For Them
Not All There
Not Of School Age
Not Quite Social
Not To Keep
Nothing Ever So Sincere
Nothing Gold Can Stay
November
Now Close The Windows
The Objection To Being Stepped On
October
Of The Stones Of The Place
The Offer
Oh Thou That Spinnest The Wheel
Old Age
The Old Barn At The Bottom Of The Fogs
An Old Man's Winter Night
On A Bird Singing In Its Sleep
On A Tree Fallen Across The Road (to Hear Us Talk)
On Being Chosen Poet Of Vermont
On Being Idolized
On Going Unnoticed
On Looking Up By Chance At The Constellations
On Our Sympathy With The Under Dog
On Taking From The Top To Broaden The Base
On Talk Of Peace At This Time
On The Heart's Beginning To Cloud The Mind
On The Inflation Of The Currency, 1919
On The Sale Of My Farm
Once By The Pacific
One Favored Acorn
One Guess
One More Brevity
One Step Backward Taken
The Onset
Our Camp; In The Autumn Woods
Our Doom To Bloom
Our Hold On The Planet
Our Singing Strength
'out, Out -'
The Oven Bird
Pan With Us
The Pans
Pares Continuas Fututiones
The Parlor Joke
Parting
A Passing Glimpse; To Ridge Torrence On Last Looking Into Hesperides
A Patch Of Old Snow
Paul's Wife
Pea Brush
The Peaceful Shepherd
A Peck Of Gold
Peril Of Hope
Pertinax
Place For A Third
The Planners
Plowmen
Pod Of The Milkweed
Poets Are Born Not Made
A Prayer In Spring
Precaution
Pride Of Ancestry
The Prophet
The Prophets Really Prophesy As Mystics, The Commentators ...
Provide, Provide
The Purpose Of The Universal Plan
Pursuit Of The Word
Pussy-willow Time
Putting In The Seed
Quandary
The Quest Of The Purple-fringed
A Question
Questioning Faces
The Rabbit-hunter
The Rain Bath
Range-finding
The Reason Of My Perfect Ease
A Record Stride
A Reflex
Reluctance
A Restoration
Revelation
Riders
The Road Not Taken
A Roadside Stand
A Rogers Group
The Rose Family
Rose Pogonias
The Rubaiyat Of Carl Burell
The Runaway
The Sachem Of The Clouds (a Thanksgiving Legend)
Sand Dunes
The Secret Sits
The Self-seeker
A Semi-revolution
A Serious Step Lightly Taken
A Servant To Servants
The Seven Arts
The Silken Tent
Sitting By A Bush In Broad Daylight
Skeptic
Snow
A Soldier
Some Science Fiction
Something For Hope
Song Of The Wave
The Sound Of The Trees
The Span Of Life
Spoils Of The Dead
Spring Pools
A Star In A Stone-boat; For Lincoln Macveagh
The Star-splitter
Stars
A Steeple On The House
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
Storm Fear
The Strong Are Saying Nothing
The Subverted Flower
A Summer's Garden
Summering
Sycamore
Sym-ball-ism
The Telephone
Ten Thirty A.m.
The Thatch
There Are Roughly Zones
They Were Welcome To Their Belief
The Three Generations Of Men
Time Out
A Time To Talk
The Times Table
To A Moth Seen In Winter
To A Thinker
To A Young Wretch (boethian)
To An Ancient
To E.t.
To Earthward
To Prayer I Think I Go
To The Right Person
To The Thawing Wind
Too Anxious For Rivers
Traces
The Traitor
Tree At My Window, Window Tree
Trespass
The Trial By Experience
A Trial Run
Triple Bronze
Trouble Rhyming
The Tuft Of Flowers
Twilight
Two Leading Lights
Two Look At Two
Two Tramps In Mud Time
Two Witches: 1. The Witch Of Coos
Two Witches: 2. The Pauper Witch Of Grafton
U.s. 1946 King's X
Unharvested
An Unhistoric Spot
Unless I Call It A Pewter Tray
An Unstamped Letter In Our Rural Letter Box
The Valley's Singing Day
The Vanishing Red
The Vantage Point
Version
The Vindictives
Voice Ways
Waiting Afield At Dusk
Wanton Waste
Warning
Waspish
Waste Or Cod Fish Eggs
We Vainly Wrestle With The Blind Belief
Were That Star Shining There By Name
West-running Brook
What Fifty Said
What Thing A Bird Would Love
When The Speed Comes
The White-tailed Hornet
Why Wait For Science
Wild Grapes
Willful Homing
The Wind And The Rain
Wind And Window Flower
A Winter Eden
Winter Ownership
Winter Winds
A Winter's Night
A Wish To Comply
The Wood-pile
The Wrights' Biplane
The Young Birch
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Here is the canonical Frost ... devotedly and richly presented. -- Derek Walcott, The New Republic

[P]resenting Frost ... fully and intelligently, The Library of America has exceeded its usual high standards and produced a book you can't afford not to own. -- William Pritchard, The Boston Globe

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Library of America; First Edition (October 1, 1995)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 1036 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 188301106X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1883011062
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.45 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.18 x 1.34 x 8.15 inches
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    Mark Richardson lives and works in Kyoto, Japan. He grew up in South Carolina & Georgia, was educated at the University of South Carolina & at Rutgers University; he taught for ten years at Western Michigan University before moving, in 2003, to Kyoto, where he now teaches at Doshisha University.

    His books include The Ordeal of Robert Frost (Illinois, 1997), and, as editor or contributing editor, Robert Frost: Poetry, Prose and Plays (with Richard Poirier) (Library of America, 1995); The Collected Prose of Robert Frost (Harvard 2007); The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume I: 1886-1920 (Harvard, February 2014), and Robert Frost in Context (Cambridge, April 2014).

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Chaunceington
5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive and Beautiful
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I'm not a poetry student. Honestly I don't know anything about poetry. But one doesn't need to know anything about painting to see the brilliance of a Pollock. The same is true for the poetry of Robert Frost. I bought this book because Library of America's editions are always perfect, and I wanted to see what all the fuss with Robert Frost was about (I mean, three Pulitzer prizes? Really?). Although I have not read this cover to cover, the portions I have read are poetic masterpieces. And that is clear even to me—the layman. Frost has a way with words that I have not seen anywhere else. None of his rhymes seem stretched, and all of his words fit together so seamlessly, it almost seems obvious. Robert Frost is definitely one of the greats, and this edition of his work is comprehensive and beautiful.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A handsome volume. Perfect for a gift.
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I gave this as a gift. This is a very nice edition of Frost's work in a handsome presentation with a ribbon to mark one's progress. I highly recommend.
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Benjamin
5.0 out of 5 stars Worth re-reading, again and again
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I am so blessed to have come across Robert Frost! A friend of mine talked to me about Frost, and I will admit (with a hint of embarrassment) that I did now know him. I read half of this gorgeous volume already, and I found so many insights into so many topics. So many verses are worth re-reading ... Frost is an American poet of the XX century who was included in Harold Bloom's Western canon, so this gives you an idea of his quality. Library of America books are extremely very well put together. Highly recommended!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Frost rehabilitated
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Jay Parini's ROBERT FROST: A LIFE, 1999, may rehabilitate the view of Frost as terrible person, presented in Lawrence Thompson's earlier biography. See Parini, pp.452 ff. Some reviews may tend to discourage reading Frost, because of Thompson's jaundiced portrait.

This wonderful, copious collection of Frost contains many of his best poems, which do not show up in popular anthologies. And his prose is filled with wit and wisdom you might not suspect. A great contribution to our Art and our humanity.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Authoritative text, complete and nicely printed, without annotation.
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There are several good editions of Frost's works available: This Library of America edition is a fine choice, being complete, reliable and nicely edited and printed. As with other Library of America editions, it does not include annotations or critical analysis, but rather presents an authoritative text of the writer's work.
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5.0 out of 5 stars who has just published a new book about Frost as the Love Poet. It was wonderful to get into many ...
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Bought for a Frost class taught by Frost's granddaughter, Dr. Lesley Francis, who has just published a new book about Frost as the Love Poet. It was wonderful to get into many of the Frost poems I was a stranger to before the course and even nicer to have such a compendium of his oeuvre w/ some of his best known prose pieces.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Reads from a great poet/essayist/writer.
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Bought this volume as a gift for a friend, as a gift. It arrived in perfect condition. . I have the same volume in my bookcase. Definitely lovely feeling the pages when I read.
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Leseratte
5.0 out of 5 stars A fine edition
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This review is for the Library of America (Loa #81) hardback edition of 'Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose & Plays.

Robert Frost's work needs no appreciative comment from me. I have an old paperback selection of poems that fell apart on opening and so needed replacing. This would seem to be the only edition where I can be sure of finding what I want to read, and is also beautifully produced, laid out and bound. Everything - and more - in one volume. Highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Most Compact and Authentic Compilation to Know and Understand Robert Frost
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Frost is my favourite poet and I love reading his works time and again. I have come across a number of editions of his poetry and other writings. But this particular compilation, a Library of America (LoA) edition, is THE one and the only one that i would recommend to anyone genuinely interested in being acquainted with Frost the poet as well as Frost the individual. Unlike the other editions, where editors have mercilessly emended Frost's original spellings, and audaciously toyed with the line arrangements of his poems, etc., Mark Richardson & Richard Poirier, the editors of this LoA edition, have refrained from such un-editorly indulgences and compiled all prominent and representative works (apart from some hitherto unpublished & uncollected pieces) of the great poet with love and with care. I have given a 5-star rating to this book also because of its binding, the quality of the pages, and the reader-friendly typeface -- all of which combine to make it a collector's item for any lover of literature.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sophisticated poet, excellent publication
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I'll leave the reviews of Frost's poetry to the critics; most are familiar with his brilliant work. The book is a luxurious hardcover edition with pages that naturally lie flat, easily readable print, and manageable layout with several indexes.

Highly recommended.
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