Bibliography

Principal Works

*all titles are books of poetry

A Boy's Will. London: Nutt, 1913.

North of Boston. London: Nutt, 1914. Contains "Mending Wall."

Mountain Interval. New York: Holt, 1916. Contains "Birches," "'Out, Out—,'" and "The Road Not Taken."

New Hampshire. New York: Holt, 1923. Contains "Nothing Gold Can Stay," "Fire and Ice," and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."

West-Running Brook. New York: Holt, 1928. Contains "Acquainted with the Night."

Collected Poems. New York: Holt, 1930.

A Further Range. New York: Holt, 1936. Contains "Desert Places" and "Design."

Collected Poems. New York: Holt, 1939.

A Witness Tree. New York: Holt, 1942. Contains "Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same," "The Secret Sits," and "The Silken Tent."

A Masque of Reason. New York: Holt, 1945. A verse drama.

A Masque of Mercy. New York: Holt, 1947. A verse drama.

Steeple Bush. New York: Holt, 1947.

Complete Poems. New York: Holt, 1949.

In the Clearing. New York: Holt, 1962.

The Poetry of Robert Frost. Ed. Edward Connery Lathem. New York: Holt, 1969. Extensively repunctuated by the editor and thus textually unreliable.

Collected Poems, Prose & Plays. New York: Library of America, 1995.

Biography and Reminiscence

Sidney Cox. A Swinger of Birches. New York University Press, 1960.

Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant. Robert Frost: The Trial by Existence. New York: Holt, 1960.

F. D. Reeve. Robert Frost in Russia. Boston: Little, Brown, 1964.

Lawrance Thompson. Robert Frost: The Early Years 1874-1915. New York: Holt, 1966.

__________. Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph 1915-1938. New York: Holt, 1970.

__________ and R. H. Winnick. Robert Frost: The Later Years 1938-1963. The official biography. Massively documented, but slanted in its approach.

John Evangelist Walsh. Into My Own: The English Years of Robert Frost. New York: Grove, 1988.

Jeffrey Meyers. Robert Frost. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. Not to be taken uncritically, especially on Frost's relationship with Kathleen Morrison.

Selected Criticism

Richard Poirier. Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing. New York: Oxford, 1977.

Philip A. Gerber. Robert Frost. Rev. ed. Boston: Twayne, 1982.

William H. Pritchard. Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered. New York: Oxford, 1984.

Mordecai Marcus. The Poems of Robert Frost: An Explication. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1991. With no axe to grind, Marcus offers a clear, succinct commentary on every poem in the 1969 collected edition.

Mark Richardson. The Ordeal of Robert Frost: The Poet and His Poetics. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1997.

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