The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong

by David Orr

Book Overview

A cultural "biography" of Robert Frost's beloved poem, arguably the most popular piece of literature written by an American "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood . . ." One hundred years after its first publication in August 1915, Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken" is so ubiquitous that it's easy to forget that it is, in fact, a poem. Yet poetry it is, and Frost's immortal lines remain unbelievably popular. And yet in spite of this devotion,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594205833
• ISBN13: 9781594205835
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Penguin Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher