The Robert Frost Reader: Poetry and Prose

By Robert Frost

Book Overview

Robert Frost was the most emblematically American of poets, a forthright advocate of both the art and craft of verse who was recognized and cherished as few other poets have ever been. This reader offers students and scholars a plethora of his speeches, interviews, correspondence, one-act plays, and other materials, as well as lengthy selections from all of Frost's books of verse. Though many have been drawn to his seemingly old-fashioned simplicity, this wide-ranging reader in fact reveals that Frost's work was often dark or ironic in tone--and always subtle and complex.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805070214
• ISBN13: 9780805070217
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

All the Robert Frost you'll (probably) need

To anyone like me who used to be only familiar with a handful of poems by Robert Frost this volume was a pleasant surprise. Not only do we get a decent sampling of his poetry, starting with his earliest poems, there are also excerpts of his plays, interviews and some essays dealing with his other main interest, namely poultry farming. This compilation is nicely put out, with a readable introduction, an index and a bibliography. To anyone not intent on becoming a specialist this reader will likely be all the Robert Frost you'll need.