The art of Robert Frost / Tim Kendall.
Kendall, Tim, 1970-; Frost, Robert, 1874-1963. Poems. Selections.
2012
PS3511.R94 Z7585 2012 (Mapit)
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Title The art of Robert Frost / Tim Kendall.
Author Kendall, Tim, 1970-
ISBN 9780300118131 (alk. paper)
0300118139 (alk. paper)
Imprint New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2012.
Language English
Description xvi, 392 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number PS3511.R94 Z7585 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 811/.54
Summary Robert Frost set out with the ambition "to be a poet for all sorts and kinds." The story of how he succeeded in his ambition is dramatized in the poems themselves.
Tracing this story, Tim Kendall presents a judicious selection of sixty five poems from across Frost's writing career, beginning in the 1890s and ending with "Directive" from the 1940s. Encouraging readers to follow the journey which Frost himself recognized in all great poetry ("It begins in delight and ends in wisdom"), Kendall intersperses the poems with sensitive and elegant close readings. He reawakens readers to the complexity and strangeness of the poet's canonical works and draws attention to lesser-known but equally powerful poems from across his oeuvre.
The first book on Frost to combine selected poems with a critical study, this engaging, carefully considered, and accessible volume will remind readers why Frost remains one of th most popular and critically respected poets of the past century.
Note Includes the entirety of Frost's North of Boston (1914); selections from A boy's will (1913); generous selections from Mountain Interval (1916) and New Hampshire (1923); and a selection of lyrics in the section titled Later poems, from West-running brook (1928), A further range (1936), A witness tree (1942), and Steeple bush (1947).
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-388) and index.
Added Author Frost, Robert, 1874-1963. Poems. Selections.
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A boy's will (1913)
Into my own
Ghost house
Rose pogonias
Mowing
The trial by existence
The tuft of flowers
Reluctance

North of Boston (1914)
The pasture
Mending wall
The death of the hired man
The mountain
A hundred collars
Home burial
The black cottage
Blueberries
A servant to servants
After apple-picking
The code
The generations of men
The housekeeper
The fear
The self-seeker
The wood-pile
Good hours

Mountain interval (1916)
The road not taken
Christmas trees
An old man's winter night
In the home stretch
Meeting and passing
Hyla Brook
The oven bird
Birches
Putting in the seed
The cow in apple time
An encounter
The bonfire
"Out, out
-"
The gum gatherer
The vanishing red
The sound of the trees

New Hampshire (1923)
A star in a stone-boat
Maple
The axe-helve
The grindstone
Paul's wife
Place for a third
Two witches. I. The witch of Coös
II. The pauper witch of Grafton
Fire and ice
To E. T.
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening
For once, then, something
The onset
A hillside thaw
The need of being versed in country things

Later poems
Acquainted with the night
Two tramps in mud time
Desert places
Neither out far nor in deep
Design
The silken tent
The most of it
The subverted flower
The gift outright
Directive.

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