VINTAGE CLASSICS
ROBERT FROST
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874. After the death of his father he moved with his mother and sister to Massachusetts. His first collection, A Boy’s Will, was published in 1913. In 1924 he won the first of four Pulitzer Prizes for his fourth book, New Hampshire. In the 1930s, as he became ever more revered, he suffered a series of family tragedies: his youngest child Marjorie died in 1934, his wife Elinor in 1938 and his son Carol in 1940. Another daughter, Irma, suffered from mental illness. Frost’s last major collection, A Witness Tree (1942), contains a number of poems reflecting these disasters. In 1957 Robert Frost received honorary degrees from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. He died in January 1963.
ROBERT FROST THE COLLECTED POEMS
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Copyright © Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1916, 1923, 1930, 1934, 1939, 1943, 1945, 1947, 1949, 1967
Copyright © Robert Frost, 1936, 1942, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962
Copyright © Lesley Frost Ballantine, 1964, 1967
The moral right of the author has been asserted First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape in 1971 Published in Vintage Classics in 2001 Reissued in this edition in 2025
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