SUMMARY: The best-loved poems from one of American literature's most towering figuresNo poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From "The Road Not Taken" to "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," he refined and even defined our sense of what poetry is and what it can do. T. S. Eliot judged him "the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet now living," and he is the only writer in history to have been awarded four Pulitzer Prizes.Henry Holt is proud to announce the republication of four editions of Frost's most beloved work for a new generation of poets and readers.In this brilliant selection of Frost's classic poems, students and scholars alike will encounter a body of work central to American culture. Robert Frost (1874-1963) is widely regarded as one of America's finest poets. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on four different occasions, and also served as Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress. The Road Not Taken offers a far-ranging selection of the best and most-beloved poems of Robert Frost. Perhaps the most widely studied and appreciated (and certainly the most famous) of all modern American poets, Frost crafted a rich, vast, and familiar-yet-new landscape in his verse that each succeeeding generation of readers has come to know and love. "Of U.S. poets, none had lodged poems more surely where they will be hard to get of," as Time has noted. "His lines often have the trenchancy and inevitability of folk sayings."With Louis Untermeyer's biographical introduction and an ongoing commentary that touches upon each poem presented here, this choice of Frost's work gives context to both the life and work of a titan of American literature. Clearly annotated and carefully arranged, The Road Not Taken is also an ideal introduction to this timeless, vitally important poetry. "Frost has bequeathed to his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever gain joy and understanding."—John F. Kennedy"Frost was the first American poet who could honestly be reckoned a master-poet by world standards."—Robert Graves"[Our] most eminent [and] most distinguished . . . Anglo-American poet."—T.S. Eliot"Frost [is among] the greatest of the American poets of the 20th century."—Randall Jarrell"No other American poet has so much art or so much subject matter."—Mark Van Doren"Of all the poetry written in our generation, Frost's is most likely to stand the test of time."—Lewis Gannett
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The best-loved poems from one of American literature's most towering figuresNo poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From "The Road Not Taken" to "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," he refined and even defined our sense of what poetry is and what it can do. T. S. Eliot judged him "the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet now living," and he is the only writer in history to have been awarded four Pulitzer Prizes.Henry Holt is proud to announce the republication of four editions of Frost's most beloved work for a new generation of poets and readers.In this brilliant selection of Frost's classic poems, students and scholars alike will encounter a body of work central to American culture. Robert Frost (1874-1963) is widely regarded as one of America's finest poets. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on four different occasions, and also served as Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress. The Road Not Taken offers a far-ranging selection of the best and most-beloved poems of Robert Frost. Perhaps the most widely studied and appreciated (and certainly the most famous) of all modern American poets, Frost crafted a rich, vast, and familiar-yet-new landscape in his verse that each succeeeding generation of readers has come to know and love. "Of U.S. poets, none had lodged poems more surely where they will be hard to get of," as Time has noted. "His lines often have the trenchancy and inevitability of folk sayings."With Louis Untermeyer's biographical introduction and an ongoing commentary that touches upon each poem presented here, this choice of Frost's work gives context to both the life and work of a titan of American literature. Clearly annotated and carefully arranged, The Road Not Taken is also an ideal introduction to this timeless, vitally important poetry. "Frost has bequeathed to his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever gain joy and understanding."—John F. Kennedy"Frost was the first American poet who could honestly be reckoned a master-poet by world standards."—Robert Graves"[Our] most eminent [and] most distinguished . . . Anglo-American poet."—T.S. Eliot"Frost [is among] the greatest of the American poets of the 20th century."—Randall Jarrell"No other American poet has so much art or so much subject matter."—Mark Van Doren"Of all the poetry written in our generation, Frost's is most likely to stand the test of time."—Lewis Gannett