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Author Lathem, Edward Connery, editor

Title Robert Frost: poetry and prose / edited by Edward Connery Lathem and Lawrance Thompson
Published New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972
New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1972]
©1972

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 MELB  810.52 F9397 Z/Coro  AVAILABLE
Description xiv, 480 pages ; 22 cm
Series Rinehart editions, 154
Contents Poetry : selections from eleven books (A boy's will -- North of Boston -- Mountain interval -- New Hampshire -- West-running brook -- A further range -- A witness tree -- Steeple bush -- In the clearing -- A masque of reason -- A masque of mercy) -- Other samplings : of various periods and kinds (Childhood letters -- Early verse -- High school prose -- My butterfly -- Letters about 'My butterfly' -- Stories for his children -- Among the poems he left behind : group one -- Stories for chicken farmers -- Letters about 'A boy's will' and about writing -- Getting the sound of sense : an interview -- Early letters to Untermeyer -- A way out : a one-act play -- Among the poems he left behind : group two -- We seem to lack the courage to be ourselves : an interview
Poetry and school : remarks from his notebooks -- The prerequisites : a preface -- Don't get converted. Stay : excerpt from an address -- Aphoristic lines of poetry -- Letters to an incipient biographer -- Among the poems he left behind : group five -- Observations and declarations of a poet-statesman -- On extravagance : a talk -- Last poem -- Last letter
Some observations on style -- Education by presence : an interview -- Six rhymed letters -- Coaching a younger writer -- Education by poetry : a meditative monologue -- Among the poems he left behind : group three -- A letter to 'The Amherst student' -- Introduction to Robinson's 'King Jasper' -- Ten of his favorite books -- On crudities and opposites : two letters -- Among the poems he left behind : group four -- Poverty and poetry : a talk -- The poet's next of kin in a college : a talk -- This is my best : a choice of sixteen poems -- A selection of couplets -- What became of New England? A commencement address -- On a passage in 'Paradise lost' : a letter -- The figure a poem makes : an introduction -- The doctrine of excursions : a preface -- The constant symbol : an introduction -- Speaking of loyalty : a talk
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 465-467
Subject Frost, Robert, 1874-1963.
Author Connery, Edward.
Thompson, Lawrance, 1906-1973.
LC no. 74188990
ISBN 0030002060
0030912997 (college)
Other Titles Poetry and prose