A treasury of Frost’s most expressive verse. “An Old Man’s Winter Night,” “In the Home Stretch,” “Meeting and Passing,” “Putting in the Seed,” many more.

5 Responses to “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)”

1. Gary Sprandel says:

   May 10, 2004 at 12:00 am

   These poems seem firmly rooted in New England and seem to be timeless, though decidedly pre-modern feel to them (this was originally published in 1916). Some of these poems may seem familiar … “The road not taken” is popular at high school graduations. There are poems of nature such as The Oven Bird (“There is a singer everyone has heard,/ Load, a mid-summer and mid-wood bird,”) or “Birches (“and they seem not to break; though once they are bowed/ for low for long, they never right themselves”) but with wider significance. There are also poems of rural isolation such as “The Hill Wife” and “Snow”. His poetry plays by literary and poetic rules, and may not be simple to read, but he does not oversimplify life.
2. Shalom Freedman says:

   April 29, 2005 at 12:00 am

   These early poems of Frost ( 1916) already display his characteristically clear and cold lines, his fine delineations of Nature, his moral meanings. “Two roads diverged in a wood- and I / I took the one less traveled by/ and that has made all the difference.
   
   Frost was a tremendously ambitious and hardworking poet, who some biographers have accused of sacrificing life and family to art. His poetry has a stark beauty about it, the beauty of the birches he devotes a major poem to.
   
   This collection lacks many of his major poems , but nonetheless gives the feeling and flavor truly of a major American poet.
   
3. The Purple Bee says:

   April 17, 2009 at 12:00 am

   The quality is quite poor. Dover thrift Editions. i will not purchase anything they publish again.
4. Edward J. Barton says:

   April 26, 2009 at 12:00 am

   Classic Robert Frost – probably the preeminent American “modern” poet. This is a reprint of Mountain Interval in the original format.