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Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays
By Robert Frost.
Edited by Richard
Poirier and Mark Richardson.
Published by Library of
America.
Published 1995.
First Edition.
Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 188301106X
ISBN-13: 978-1883011062
Description:
Justly celebrated at
home and abroad, Robert Frost is perhaps America’s greatest twentieth-century
poet and a towering figure in American letters. From the publication of his
first collections, A Boy’s Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914), Frost was recognized
as a poet of unique power and formal skill, and the enduring significance of
his work has been acknowledged by each subsequent generation. His poetry ranges
from deceptively simply pastoral lyrics and genial, vernacular genre pieces to
darker meditations, complex and ironic.
Here, based on extensive
research into his manuscripts and published work, is the first authoritative
and truly comprehensive collection of his writings. Brought together for the
first time in a Library of America single volume is all the major poetry, a
generous selection of uncollected poems, all of Frost’s dramatic writing, and
the most extensive gathering of his prose writings ever published, several of
which are printed here for the first time.
The core of this
collection is the 1949 Complete Poems of Robert Frost, the last
collection supervised by Frost himself. This version of the poems is free of
unauthorized editorial changes introduced into subsequent editions. Also
included is In the Clearing (1962), Frost’s final volume of poetry. Verse drawn
from letters, articles, pamphlets, and journals makes up the largest selection
of uncollected poems ever assembled, including nearly two dozen beautiful early
works printed for the first time. Also gathered here are all the dramatic
works: three plays and two verse masques.
The unprecedented prose
section includes more than three times as many items as any other collection
available. It is rich and diverse, presenting many newly discovered or
rediscovered pieces. Especially unusual items include Frost’s contribution to
John F. Kennedy’s inauguration and two fascinating 1959 essays on “The Future
of Man.” Several manuscript items are published here for the first time,
including the essays “‘Caveat Poeta’” and “The Way There,” Frost’s remarks on
being appointed poetry consultant to the Library of Congress in 1958, the
preface to a proposed new edition of North of Boston, and many others. A
selection of letters represents all of Frost’s important comments about
prosody, poetics, style, and his theory of “sentence sounds.”
LIBRARY
OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to
preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently
in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America
series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that
average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon
markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for
centuries.
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