Many people know Robert Frost only as the poet who wrote:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Perhaps you recall him as a poet who, like Thoreau, focused on a
few ordinary, rustic events, and wrote a famous poem about a
rainbow, another about blueberries, and another about a wood-pile.
The work of Robert Frost (1874-1963) is sometimes regarded as
part of the New England school of poetry. All of his eleven books
of poetry from 1913 to 1962 are combined into this one 607-page
volume. It contains more than 350 poems, indexed both by titles
and by first lines. The editor, Frost's close friend Edward
Latham, has added bibliographic information and annotations to
individual poems.
Poetry of Robert Frost ---
The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged
is the title of the paperback edition.
The Poetry of Robert Frost --- All Eleven of His Books Complete
is the hardcover edition.
Both come from the same publisher (Holt) and have exactly the same
content.
Read an excerpt -- Birches , by Robert Frost (poem , 1920)
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Robert Frost -- A Life , by Jay Parisi
(HARDCOVER)
Jay Parisi wrote the biography in 1999. The first biography of
Robert Frost was Lawrance Roger Thompson, Robert Frost -- A
Biography -- The 'Official' Life of the Poet, 1966 [Now out of
print]. Written by a former friend who had later developed a
personal rivalry with Frost, the first bio was notably hostile.
It neglected the warm and sensitive side of the man, and portrayed
him as a threatening person. Based on 25 years of research,
Parisi was inspired to write a new bio to correct the false
image.
The American poet, Robert Lee Frost, was born and grew up in San
Francisco, and was educated at Dartmouth and Harvard. He first
got published and became famous in England, where he lived from
1912 to 1915. After American culture imported what it had
previously exported, Frost came to be looked upon by many as the
official American poet. He was the only poet to win the Pulitzer
four times, was made into a mandatory topic in high school English
curricula, and was invited to read at President Kennedy's
inauguration. Several world leaders, including Khrushchev, met
with him.