West-Running Brook

By Robert Frost

West-Running Brook is Robert Frost's poetry book containing woodcuts. On account of this volume Frost is called "Home Spun Philosopher". The title of this volume is very significant. In New England only one small river flows to west while all the other rivers flow to east. In the same way, the poet trusts himself to go by contrary ways...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Reading Essentials
• Release date: Jun 26, 2019
• ISBN: 9788834146149

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.

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West-Running Brook 

by Robert Frost

First published in 1928

This edition published by Reading Essentials

Victoria, BC Canada with branch offices in the Czech Republic and Germany

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West-Running Brook 

 by 

 Robert Frost

To E. M. F.

I. SPRING POOLS

Spring Pools

The Freedom of the Moon

The Rose Family

Fireflies in the Garden

Atmosphere—Inscription for a Garden Wall

Devotion

On Going Unnoticed. 1901

The Cocoon

A Passing Glimpse. To Ridgley Torrence

A Peck of Gold. As of about 1880

Acceptance

II. FIAT NOX

Once by the Pacific. As of about 1880

Lodged

A Minor Bird

Bereft. As about 1893

Tree at My Window

The Peaceful Shepherd

The Thatch. As of 1914

A Winter Eden

The Flood

Acquainted with the Night

III. WEST-RUNNING BROOK

West-running Brook

IV. SAND DUNES

Sand Dunes

Canis Major

A Soldier

Immigrants

Hannibal

The Flower Boat. Very early

V. OVER BACK

The Times Table

The Investment

The Last Mowing

The Birthplace

VI. MY NATIVE SIMILE

The Door in the Dark

Dust in the Eyes

Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight

The Armful

Riders

On Looking