A Boy's Will

By Robert Frost

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Nov 20, 2019
• ISBN: 4057664172600

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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Robert Frost

A Boy's Will

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Into My Own

Ghost House

My November Guest

Love and a Question

A Late Walk

Stars

Storm Fear

Wind and Window Flower

To the Thawing Wind (audio)

A Prayer in Spring

Flower-gathering

Rose Pogonias

Asking for Roses

Waiting Afield at Dusk

In a Vale

A Dream Pang

In Neglect

The Vantage Point

Mowing

Going for Water

Revelation

The Trial by Existence

In Equal Sacrifice

The Tuft of Flowers

Spoils of the Dead

Pan with Us

The Demiurge's Laugh

Now Close the Windows

A Line-storm Song

October

My Butterfly

Reluctance

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Part I

Into My Own

The youth is persuaded that he will be rather more than less himself

for having forsworn the world.

Ghost House

He is happy in society of his choosing.

My November Guest

He is in love with being misunderstood.

Love and a Question

He is in doubt whether to admit real trouble to a place beside the

hearth with love.

A Late Walk

He courts the autumnal mood.

Stars

There is no oversight of human affairs.

Storm Fear

He is afraid of his own isolation.

Wind and Window Flower

Out of the winter things he fashions a story of modern love.

To the Thawing Wind (audio)

He calls on change through the violence of the elements.

A Prayer in Spring

He discovers that the greatness of love lies not in forward-looking

thoughts;

Flower-gathering

nor yet in any spur it may be to ambition.

Rose Pogonias

He is no dissenter from the ritualism