The Road Not Taken and Other Poems: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Synopsis

A Deluxe Edition Of Frost's Early Poems, Selected By Poet David Orr For The Centennial Of The Road Not Taken For One Hundred Years, Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken Has Enchanted And Challenged Readers With Its Deceptively Simple Premise--a Person Reaches A Fork In The Road, Facing A Choice Full Of Doubt And Possibility. The Road Not Taken And Other Poems Presents Frost's Best-loved Poem Along With Other Works From His Brilliant Early Years, Including Such Poems As After Apple-picking, The Oven Bird, And Mending Wall. Award-winning Poet And Critic David Orr's Introduction Discusses Why Frost Remains So Central (if Often Misunderstood) In American Culture And How The Beautiful Intricacy Of His Poetry Keeps Inviting Generation After Generation To Search For Meaning In His Work. For More Than Sixty-five Years, Penguin Has Been The Leading Publisher Of Classic Literature In The English-speaking World. With More Than 1,500 Titles, Penguin Classics Represents A Global Bookshelf Of The Best Works Throughout History And Across Genres And Disciplines. Readers Trust The Series To Provide Authoritative Texts Enhanced By Introductions And Notes By Distinguished Scholars And Contemporary Authors, As Well As Up-to-date Translations By Award-winning Translators-- The Road Not Taken And Other Poems Celebrates The 100th Anniversary Of The Road Not Taken, Published In The August 1915 Issue Of The Atlantic Monthly. This Volume Presents Frost's Essential Early Poems, Selected By Award-winning Poetry Critic David Orr-- From A Boy's Will (1913) -- Into My Own -- A Ate Walk -- Stars -- Storm Fear -- Wind And Window Garden -- Flower-gathering -- In Neglect -- Mowing -- Revelation -- The Trial By Existence -- The Tuft Of Flowers -- Now Close The Windows -- Reluctance -- From North Of Boston (1914) -- The Pasture -- Mending Wall -- The Death Of A Hired Man -- The Mountain -- Home Burial -- The Black Cottage -- A Servant To Servants -- After Apple-picking -- The Code -- The Housekeeper -- The Fear -- The Self-seeker -- The Wood-pile -- Good Hours -- From Mountain Interval (1916) -- The Road Not Taken -- An Old Man's Winter Night -- A Patch Of Old Snow -- Meeting And Passing -- Hyla Brook -- The Oven Bird -- Bond And Free -- Birches -- Putting In The Speed -- The Cow In Apple Time -- Range-finding -- The Hill Wife -- The Bonfire -- The Exposed Nest -- Out, Out - -- The Line-gang -- The Vanishing Red -- The Sound Of Trees. Robert Frost ; Edited And With An Introduction By David Orr.