"John F. Kennedy said of Robert Frost: "He has bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever gain joy and understanding." A four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Frost created a new poetic language that has a deep and timeless resonance. In addition to Robert Frost's first three books, this collection includes eighteen early poems that did not appear in his eleven books of poetry and have rarely been reprinted. Some of these express the idealism of youth inspired by heroic figures of the past. Others are love poems to Elinor White, whom he married in 1895. A Boy's Will, published in 1913 in England, was Frost's first book. The thirty-two poems loosely trace the course of a young man's maturing view of the world. Such poems as "Mowing" and "The Pasture" fixed part of his poetic character. North of Boston, also published first in England, includes "Mending Wall" as well as many dramatic dialogues and narratives - stories of farmers and their families, farm workers and villagers. Without sentimentality or melodrama, these poems of joys and tragedies, like "The Death of the Hired Man," "Home Burial," and "The Self-Seeker" are deeply moving. Mountain Interval, Frost's third book, contains some of his finest and best-known poems, including "The Road Not Taken" and "Birches." With its publication his achievement was solidified and enlarged. In Robert Frost's poems the simple images and themes are interwoven into a complex pattern of provocative ideas and observations. It is not surprising that today he is considered a central figure in the development of American poetry and is one of the country's best-loved poets." --,Dust Jacket.

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