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Robert Frost's Poems
by Robert Frost (Editor: Louis Untermeyer)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Pocket Books (Mm) (1991-12)
ISBN: 0671496174
EAN: 9780671496173
Dewy Decimal #: 811.52
Paperback
SKU: 080527005
Condition: Collectible: Very Go
Comments: This copy states First Pocket Books Printing 1946, which is in excellent condition. No visible markings, highlights, underlining, tears to text. Pages are sunned, this is due to age. Tight spine. No Dust Jacket. Clean Soft Cover with light shelf/edge wear. Great copy for the poet in you, at an affordable price. (L11-1)
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Here in one volume are selected poems of Robert Frost, accompanied by an introduction and commentary by Louis Untermeyer. They make up an anthology that will bring you numberless hours of pleasure and joy.
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Customer Reviews
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Great collection, and at a great price too!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-07-14
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
In high school we were probably exposed to at least a few (or more) of Robert Frost's poems, commonly the more popular ones such as "The Road Not Taken", "After Apple Picking", or "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." This is a worthy, approachable collection of poetry from Frost, which includes not only the aforementioned popular poems, but some obscure ones as well.
What is particularly resourceful about this collection of Frost's work is that they are categorized into similar areas of thought: there is a section about woods, roads, nature, and common everyday life and people. More importantly, each poem has a small introduction, where the editor has given you a small synopsis about what the poem is about, or some element to look for while reading. It might not seem like much, but this makes reading poetry that more enjoyable.
Frost has a unique ability to depict nature and humanity in the same breath, and to reveal tidbits of philosophy about life in simplistic every day moods. His style is quite easy to read, but sometimes you have to look and "dig" a little for the meaning.
One poem, "The Death of a Hired Man", is interesting because it not only reads as a dialogue, but has elements of a short narrative. When an old hired hand returns, he faces the idea of death as the man and wife discuss his usefulness. There is a rich description of the moon and sky, evidently symbolic of an approaching end to the old man:
"Part of the moon was falling down the west,
Dragging the while sky with it to the hills.
Its light pored softly in her lap. She saw it
And spread her apron to it. She put out her
hand..."
Frost also has a canny aptitude of intermingling simplicity with intricate and profound ideas. For instance, in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," there is a simple rhythm, yet a message that responsibility and duty are significant to mankind. The speaker, who decides to stop in life to admire nature, and see snow falling quietly, knows that he must move on eventually:
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep..."
Whether you are a poet enthusiast, or just someone sampling Frost, this is a great collection of his poems, and at a very good price.
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Good
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-04-20
For the price, there is no better collection. It is Untermeyer's special gift to make it more fun to read.
The author's commentary between each poem can break your pacing but it was a cheap book and every once in a while he has something interesting to say.
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great
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-09-22
This is really a great collection of frost's work. It is a great book for anyone who is interested in reading his poems. It has some of his best work complied into one easy to read book.
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An Approachable Robert Frost Collection
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-12-01
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
I had not read much of Frost since I saw him give a reading at Dartmouth College in the last year of his life. This September, I went back to New Hampshire for the first time in 39 years, visiting my old campus -- and Robert Frost's farm near Franconia Notch. In my bag was Louis Untermeyer's delightful selection of Frost poems, interspersed by his lucid, but unobtrusive commentary.
Frost is a poet who has a very distinctive "voice" in his works. It takes a bit of ferreting out to see how it changes from one poem to another, sometimes substantially, from wry and folksy all the way to devastatingly ironic. To help us with the process, Untermeyer groups several like poems together between blocks of commentary. Each group acted as a separate unit to assist in breaking the text into readable chunks.
Especially with a book of poetry, that is no mean feat. It helped that Untermeyer knew Frost as well as any man alive. The selection is superb, including my favorites: "After Apple-Picking," "The Sound of the Trees," "The Death of the Hired Man," and "Mending Wall."
For the price, there is no better collection. It is Untermeyer's special gift to make it more fun to read.
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Excellent Introduction
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-08-27
4 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
I would like to make an additional comment in reference to the two previous reviewers. While I certainly agree with their evaluation of Frost's ability and scope, many who hear or read "man and nature" might not make the connection Frost so often made in his works, letters, and life. Frost was constantly drawing the line of demarcation: between our dream relationship with nature and our actually lack thereof. But moreover, the tenuous relationship between science (mankind's reasoning mind) and the greater world (nature's passion and drives).
Frost not only looked at what we gained from "progress," but also what we lost. After all, what is progress? It certainly depends on your view...
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