The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Frost’s early poems, selected by poet David Orr for the centennial of “The Road Not Taken”
A Penguin Classics Deluxe edition
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…
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874. When he was ten, his father died and he and his mother moved to New England. He attended school at Dartmouth and Harvard, worked in a mill, taught, and took up farming, before he moved to England, where his first books of poetry, A Boy’s Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914), were published. North of Boston brought him recognition as the preeminent voice of New England and as one of America’s major poets. In 1915 he returned to the United States and settled on a farm in New Hampshire. Four volumes of his poetry, New Hampshire (1923), Collected Poems (1930), A Further Range (1936), and A Witness Tree (1942) were all awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He died in 1963.
The Letters of Robert Frost
Robert Frost
New Hampshire
Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
Robert Frost; Edited with an Introduction by David Orr
Collected Prose of Robert Frost
Robert Frost
Notebooks of Robert Frost
Robert Frost
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost; Illustrated by Susan Jeffers
Poems by Robert Frost
Robert Frost