The Road Not Taken and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) [Paperback]

Robert Frost (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up | Series: Dover Thrift Editions

Originally published in 1916 under the title Mountain Interval, this volume contains many of Frost's finest and most moving poems. In addition to the title poem: "An Old Man's Winter Night," "In the Home Stretch," "Meeting and Passing," "Putting in the Seed," "A Time to Talk," many more. All complete and unabridged.

Editorial Reviews

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Birches
Bond And Free
The Bonfire
Brown's Descent, Or, The Willy-nilly Slide
Christmas Trees
The Cow In Apple Time
An Encounter
The Exposed Nest
A Girl's Garden
The Gum Gatherer
The Hill Wife: House Fear
The Hill Wife: Loneliness
The Hill Wife: The Impulse
The Hill Wife: The Oft-repeated Dream
The Hill Wife: The Smile
Hyla Brook
In The Home Stretch
The Line-gang
Meeting And Passing
An Old Man's Winter Night
'out, Out -'
The Oven Bird
A Patch Of Old Snow
Pea Brush
Range-finding
The Road Not Taken
Snow
The Sound Of The Trees
The Telephone
A Time To Talk
The Vanishing Red
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 11 and up
  
• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications (April 19, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486275507
• ISBN-13: 978-0486275505
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,631 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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48 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Clean cold lines of New England poems, April 29, 2005

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Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Road Not Taken and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) (Paperback)

These early poems of Frost ( 1916) already display his characteristically clear and cold lines, his fine delineations of Nature, his moral meanings. "Two roads diverged in a wood- and I / I took the one less traveled by/ and that has made all the difference.
Frost was a tremendously ambitious and hardworking poet, who some biographers have accused of sacrificing life and family to art. His poetry has a stark beauty about it, the beauty of the birches he devotes a major poem to.
This collection lacks many of his major poems , but nonetheless gives the feeling and flavor truly of a major American poet.

35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Five stars for the price, October 5, 2001

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David E. Levine (Peekskill , NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Road Not Taken and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) (Paperback)

This collection of Robert Frost poems is a clear 5 star for the low price. Dover consistently provides great literature at an extremely low price. Despite the great bargain, you may want to spend more and purchase a book of Frost's complete poerty. Although this book has a nice selection, some of his greatest poems are missing from this collection, notably "Mending Wall" and "Fire and Ice." Still, if you just want a few selected poems to carry you back to another era into a New England woods on a snowy evening you can't go wrong here.

37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Essence of a Moment  Poetry by Frost, August 9, 2002

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S. Miska (Germany) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Road Not Taken and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) (Paperback)

Frost, like no other poet, captures a moment that we all have experienced at one time in life. He paints a picture with such vivid strokes of literary imagery that the mind brings the reader back to a moment in time, almost feeling the sensations of past experiences.

For example, I recently made a decision where I was torn between family and career interests. To ease the anxiety of a lost professional opportunity, I reasoned that the chance would present itself again someday, maybe. Thinking of Frost I realized that he captured that very self-rationalization in the Road Not Taken. "Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back."

As others have pointed out already, the largest drawback of the book is lack of thickness. Even though one of my all-time favorites, "Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening," is not present, others like "An Old Man's Winter Night" make up for it. If you need a small book to stick in a backpack while hiking for moments of inspiration while on the trail, you could do worse than to carry along a little bit of Frost.