Poems by Robert Frost (Centennial Edition): A Boy's Will and North of Boston (Signet Classics)
Robert Lee Frostwas 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) andNorth of Boston(1914), were published. 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), andA Witness Tree(1942)—were awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He died in 1963. William H. Pritchardis a distinguished critic and Henry Clay Folger Professor of English at Amherst College. Among his works areOn Poets and PoetryandFrost: A Literary Life Reconsidered. Peter Davisonwas an esteemed critic, poetry editor forThe Atlantic Monthly, and author of ten books of verse, includingThe Breaking of the Day, winner of the Yale Younger Poets Award, and such works of nonfiction asOne of the Dangerous Trades: Essays on the Work and Working of Poetry.