Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

New Hampshire
New Hampshire
New Hampshire
Ebook115 pages1 hour

New Hampshire

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

4.5/5

()

Read preview

About this ebook

Robert Frost’s 1923 collection of poetry “New Hampshire” earned him the first of four Pulitzer prizes in his lifetime. Written at a time when he was writing, teaching and lecturing from his home base in Franconia, New Hampshire, this collection contains some of his most famous and beloved poems, including “Fire and Ice”, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, and “Stopping By a Woods on a Snowy Evening.”
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJan 8, 2019
ISBN9781974939152
Author

Robert Frost

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.

Read more from Robert Frost

Related to New Hampshire

Related ebooks

Poetry For You

View More

Related articles

Related categories

Reviews for New Hampshire

Rating: 4.5499999 out of 5 stars
4.5/5

10 ratings1 review

What did you think?

Tap to rate

Review must be at least 10 words

  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    In 1923 Robert Frost published his Selected Poems in the spring followed by this collection in November. The following year he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for it. In addition to the titular poem this collection includes the famous "Fire and Ice", a short poem with resonance from Dante and others. One of my favorites is "The Onset" that seems an appropriate poem to meditate upon as spring approaches. I think we can see a hint of Dante again in this poem with "the dark woods", and there is also the symbolism of winter coming, of snow falling, a beautiful imagery that a time will descend upon us where our lives are dull, tragic, painful or lonely. Yet in the second stanza hope appears with the recognition that "winter death has never tried the earth but it has failed:". By the end of the poem the transition from death to life is complete when one contrasts the white of "the gathered snow" at night to the living white of the birch tree and hope in family life symbolized by "a clump of houses" and the spiritual life of the church."Nothing will be left of white but here a birch,And there a clump of houses with a church."

Book preview

New Hampshire - Robert Frost

xfTebook_preview_excerpt.html}Xێ>e$` VZB9ݜnfddk<~G %: g1 س3S7޾I9߽}c?Øzz _yǷj0Yit{Q{Ô{uJڶ:rIeu0ΚF% !6a/LQᨆ_!zne"V'U놷Nea٩{iǐ -peڏSӫAlbQ zBvNb17˄bg;%_1-3 B8S;r y]=ɲM]ԍQ#ϣ ~g.JqH6O:- yBߩ l|MN{͍L}Uk̸B[WŅT{ U@k"#3Yԁ8 sGg2e4~7mE0y!TnV!* FG1:-c=H`Ѥ՚u [{(nbɂTݹ)د3``Ȃ`0ulhqȇ:-G0EfGWz ʧ.;Ku"(\eVR-\ eEfrAq8LY}nv'[^eVǕ %`f=; ㌦:}IRDʡJqĄ]+xNsk: cp>w8ȾbEe0zp&j; ʸ=pIFn^VegYmvf]GSԄt-6˂Ѳ+ppž!JhQ=%89O0@rINx4V ҋ^3X7 ~F3gj&>LT&c6S`hc_j{@a=DpS6!4DDC9 M7-3C0@2GT䡃`{G-8׫.+DAo9ƌT>RnG\71<*ˈ5 "mڗ^&py]q*sEӄEoXUEHUO}ypYFY.b{z[l[][y]Cu w}-ј./jAVE%NBz;.Bpg NlZL4sXp'n;WOr3"Χw1J|543nh~9wZ2':0ԉ^ÝU-O}jx%or2gG=AIDwtӅ߀&B1jiޢ^ 0UFv}L[$xȌ@*;tE)"h1U,ξh$a^cj?= U] 8>"
Enjoying the preview?
Page 1 of 1