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Title

Early Frost : the first three books / edited by Jeffrey Meyers.

Author

Frost, Robert, 1874-1963.

Publication

Hopewell, NJ : Ecco Press, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Meyers, Jeffrey.

Description

xxxv, 200 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Frost, Robert, 1874-1963

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

• Into My Own: The youth is persuaded that he will be rather more than less himself for having forsworn the world -- Ghost House: He is happy in society of his choosing -- My November Guest: He is in love with being misunderstood -- Love and a Question: He is in doubt whether to admit real trouble to a place beside the hearth with love -- A Late Walk: He courts the autumnal mood -- Stars: There is no oversight of human affairs -- Storm Fear: He is afraid of his own isolation -- Wind and Window Flower: Out of the winter things he fashions a story of modern love -- To the Thawing Wind: He calls on change through the violence of the elements -- A Prayer in Spring: He discovers that the greatness of love lies not in forward-looking thoughts -- Flower-Gathering: nor yet in any spur it may be to ambition -- Rose Pogonias: He is no dissenter from the ritualism of nature -- Asking for Roses: nor from the ritualism of youth which is make-believe --
• Waiting - Afield at Dusk: He arrives at the turn of the year -- In a Vale: Out of old longings he fashions a story -- A Dream Pang: He is shown by a dream how really well it is with him -- In Neglect: He is scornful of folk his scorn cannot reach -- The Vantage Point: And again scornful, but there is no one hurt -- Mowing: He takes up life simply with the small tasks -- Going for Water -- Revelation: He resolves to become intelligible, at least to himself, since there is no help else -- The Trial by Existence: and to know definitely what he thinks about the soul -- In Equal Sacrifice: about love -- The Tuft of Flowers: about fellowship -- Spoils of the Dead: about death -- Pan with Us: about art (his own) -- The Demiurge's Laugh: about science -- Now Close the Windows: It is time to make an end of speaking -- A Line-Storm Song: It is the autumnal mood with a difference -- October: He sees days slipping from him that were the best for what they were --
• My Butterfly: There are things that can never be the same -- Reluctance -- Mending Wall -- The Death of the Hired Man -- The Mountain -- A Hundred Collars -- Home Burial -- The Black Cottage -- Blueberries -- A Servant to Servants -- After Apple-Picking -- The Code -- The Generations of Men -- The Housekeeper -- The Fear -- The Self-Seeker -- The Wood-Pile -- Good Hours -- The Road Not Taken -- Christmas Trees -- An Old Man's Winter Night -- A Patch of Old Snow -- In the Home Stretch -- The Telephone -- Meeting and Passing -- Hyla Brook -- The Oven Bird -- Bond and Free -- Birches -- Pea Brush -- Putting in the Seed -- A Time to Talk -- The Cow in Apple Time -- An Encounter -- Range-Finding -- The Hill Wife -- The Bonfire -- A Girl's Garden -- The Exposed Nest -- "Out, Out-" -- Brown's Descent or the Willy-Nilly Slide -- The Gum-Gatherer -- The Line-Gang -- The Vanishing Red -- Snow -- The Sound of the Trees.

ISBN

0880014474 (alk. paper)

LCCN

95026679

OCLC

• 33900132
• ocm33900132

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries