This collection offers an extensive body of work, ranging from juvenilia to such famous essays as 'The Figure a Poem Makes' and Frost's speeches and contributions to magazines solicited when he had become the 'Grand Old Man of American letters'.
During his lifetime, Robert Frost notoriously resisted collecting his prose--going so far as to halt the publication of one prepared compilation and to "lose" the transcripts of the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures he delivered at Harvard in 1936. But for all his qualms, Frost...