ROBERT FROST (1874-1963) was one of the most popular and critically respected American poets of the 20th century.  He is highly regarded for his depictions of rural New England, his command of American colloquial speech, and his realistic verse portraying ordinary people in everyday situations.  Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry, and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 for his poetic works.

Some critics have dismissed Frost as a poet of sweet nostalgia and a social and political conservative who was content to sigh for the good things of the past.  They emphasize the undeniable absence in his poems of meaningful references to the modern realities of industrialization, urbanization, and the concentration of wealth.  But such views have failed to gain general acceptance in the face of the universality of Frost's themes, the emotional authenticity of his voice, and the austere technical brilliance of his verse.  Frost was often able to endow his rural imagery with a larger symbolic or metaphysical significance, and his best poems transcend the immediate realities of their subject matter to illuminate the unique blend of tragic endurance, stoicism, and tenacious affirmation that marked his outlook on life.


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                                   == POETRY ==

* Early Poems (Penguin Classics, 1998).  Edited by Robert Faggen. -- ePUB

* Poems: A Boy's Will and North of Boston (Signet Classics, 2001).  Introduction by William H. Pritchard, and Afterword by Peter Davison. -- ePUB

* Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems (Holt, 1975).  Edited by Edward Connery Lathem. -- PDF

* Road Not Taken & Other Poems, The (Penguin Classics, 2015).  Edited by David Orr. -- ePUB

* Selected Early Poems (Coyote Canyon, 2009).  Edited by Thomas Fasano. -- ePUB


                               == LETTERS & PROSE ==

* Art of Poetry, The (Paris Review, Summer-Fall 1960).  Interview by Richard Poirer. -- PDF

* Letters of Robert Frost, Vol. 1: 1886-1920 (Harvard UP, 2014).  Edited by Donald Sheehy et al. -- PDF

* Letters of Robert Frost, Vol. 2: 1920-1928 (Harvard UP, 2016).  Edited by Donald Sheehy et al. -- PDF

* Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer (HRW, 1963).  Edited by Louis Untermeyer. -- PDF

* Robert Frost and John Bartlett: The Record of a Friendship (HRW, 1963).  By Margaret Bartlett Anderson. -- PDF

* Robert Frost on Writing (Rutgers UP, 1973).  Edited by Elaine Barry. -- PDF

* Robert Frost: Speaking on Campus: Excerpts from His Talks, 1949-1962 (Norton, 2009).  Edited by Edward Connery Lathem. -- ePUB

* Selected Letters of Robert Frost (HRW, 1964).  Edited by Lawrance Thompson. -- PDF