Mountain Interval

ISBN-13: 9781513270913

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Mint Editions

Publication Date: 02-01-2021

Pages: 64

Product Dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.16(d)

Series: Mint Editions (Poetry and Verse)

Robert Frost (1874-1963) was an American poet. Born in San Francisco, Frost moved with his family to Lawrence, Massachusetts following the death of his father, a teacher and editor. There, he attended Lawrence High School and went on to study for a brief time at Dartmouth College before returning home to work as a teacher, factory worker, and newspaper delivery person. Certain of his calling as a poet, Frost sold his first poem in 1894, embarking on a career that would earn him acclaim and honor unlike any American poet before or since. Before his paternal grandfather’s death, he purchased a farm in Derry, New Hampshire for Robert and his wife Elinor. For the next decade, Frost worked on the farm while writing poetry in the mornings before returning to teaching once more. In 1912, having moved to England, Frost published A Boy’s Will, his first book of poems. Through the next several years, he wrote and published poetry while befriending such writers as Edward Thomas and Ezra Pound. In 1915, after publishing North of Boston (1914) in London, Frost returned to the United States to settle on another farm in Franconia, New Hampshire, where he continued writing and teaching and began lecturing. Over the next several decades, Frost published numerous collections of poems, including New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes (1924) and Collected Poems (1931), winning a total of four Pulitzer Prizes and establishing his reputation as the foremost American poet of his generation.

Table of Contents

The Road Not Taken 7

Christmas Trees 8

An Old Man’s Winter Night 10

The Exposed Nest 11

A Patch of Old Snow 13

In the Home Stretch 14

The Telephone 22

Meeting and Passing 23

Hyla Brook 24

The Oven Bird 25

Bond and Free 26

Birches 27

Pea Brush 29

Putting in the Seed 30

A Time to Talk 31

The Cow in Apple Time 32

An Encounter 33

Range-Finding 34

The Hill Wife 35

The Bonfire 38

A Girl’s Garden 42

Locked Out 44

The Last Word of a Bluebird 45

“Out, Out—” 46

Brown’s Descent or the Willy-Nilly Slide 48

The Gum-Gatherer 51

The Line-Gang 53

The Vanishing Red 54

Snow 55

The Sound of the Trees 68