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Frost / selected and edited by John Hollander.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Everyman's library pocket poetsPublication details: New York : Knopf, c1997.Description: 256 p. ; 17 cmISBN:
  • 0679455140 :
Uniform titles:
  • Poems. Selections
Contents:
Foreword -- Pasture -- Into my own -- Ghost house -- My November guest -- Love and a question -- late walk -- Starts -- Storm fear -- Wind and Window Flower -- Flower-gathering -- Rose pogonias -- Waiting -- in a vale -- Dream pang -- Neglect -- Vantage point -- Mowing -- going for water -- Trial by existence -- Tuft of flowers -- Pan with us -- Line-storm song -- October -- My butterfly -- Reluctance -- Mending wall -- Death of the hired man -- Mountain -- Hundred collars -- Home burial -- Black cottage -- Blueberries -- Servant to servants -- After apple-picking -- Code -- Generations of men -- Housekeeper -- Fear -- Wood-pile -- Good hours -- Road not taken -- Christmas trees -- An old man's winter night -- Patch of old snow -- Home stretch -- Telephone -- Meeting and passing -- Hyla Brook -- Oven bird -- Bond and free -- Birches -- Pea brush -- Putting in the seed -- Time to talk -- Cow in apple time -- Encounter -- Range-finding -- Hill wife -- Bonfire -- Girl's garden -- Exposed nest -- "Out, out-" -- Brown's descent -- Gum-gatherer -- Line-gang -- Vanishing red -- Snow -- Sound of the trees -- Star is a stone-boat -- Census-taker -- Maple -- Ax-helve -- Grindstone -- Wild grapes -- pauper witch of Grafton -- Fire and ice -- Misgiving -- Snow dust -- For once, then, something -- Onset -- Good-by and keep cold -- Need of being versed in country things -- Fragmentary blue -- Flower boat -- Index of first lines.
Summary: From one of the most brilliant and widely read of all American poets, a generous selection of lyrics, dramatic monologues, and narrative poems--all of them steeped in the wayward and isolated beauty of Frost's native New England. Includes his classics "Mending Wall, " "Birches, " and "The Road Not Taken, " as well as poems less famous but equally great.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 811.52 F939 Available 33111004529307
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

From one of the most brilliant and widely read of all American poets, a generous selection of lyrics, dramatic monologues, and narrative poems.

Robert Frost's poetry, steeped in the wayward and isolated beauty of his native New England, has delighted generations of readers. This beautiful small hardcover selection contains many of his most classic poems, including "Mending Wall, " "Birches, " and "The Road Not Taken, " as well as poems less famous but equally great.

Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a jewel-toned jacket.

Includes index.

Foreword -- Pasture -- Into my own -- Ghost house -- My November guest -- Love and a question -- late walk -- Starts -- Storm fear -- Wind and Window Flower -- Flower-gathering -- Rose pogonias -- Waiting -- in a vale -- Dream pang -- Neglect -- Vantage point -- Mowing -- going for water -- Trial by existence -- Tuft of flowers -- Pan with us -- Line-storm song -- October -- My butterfly -- Reluctance -- Mending wall -- Death of the hired man -- Mountain -- Hundred collars -- Home burial -- Black cottage -- Blueberries -- Servant to servants -- After apple-picking -- Code -- Generations of men -- Housekeeper -- Fear -- Wood-pile -- Good hours -- Road not taken -- Christmas trees -- An old man's winter night -- Patch of old snow -- Home stretch -- Telephone -- Meeting and passing -- Hyla Brook -- Oven bird -- Bond and free -- Birches -- Pea brush -- Putting in the seed -- Time to talk -- Cow in apple time -- Encounter -- Range-finding -- Hill wife -- Bonfire -- Girl's garden -- Exposed nest -- "Out, out-" -- Brown's descent -- Gum-gatherer -- Line-gang -- Vanishing red -- Snow -- Sound of the trees -- Star is a stone-boat -- Census-taker -- Maple -- Ax-helve -- Grindstone -- Wild grapes -- pauper witch of Grafton -- Fire and ice -- Misgiving -- Snow dust -- For once, then, something -- Onset -- Good-by and keep cold -- Need of being versed in country things -- Fragmentary blue -- Flower boat -- Index of first lines.

From one of the most brilliant and widely read of all American poets, a generous selection of lyrics, dramatic monologues, and narrative poems--all of them steeped in the wayward and isolated beauty of Frost's native New England. Includes his classics "Mending Wall, " "Birches, " and "The Road Not Taken, " as well as poems less famous but equally great.

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