Product Description

This selection of Frost's poetry contains forty poems spanning his early and mature collections including choices from A Boy's Will, North of Boston, West-Running Brook, A Further Range, and In the Clearing. This edition has comprehensive notes on the poems and an Approaches section offering commentary and activities on key themes and techniques within the poetry, such as Frost's pastoral imagery, his friendship with Edward Thomas, and his narrative and lyric voices.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #133241 in Books
• Published on: 1998-09-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Customer Reviews

An excellent introduction
This book is fantastic, and is a great introduction to Frost's poetry. I myself am a student, and I have gained great help from this book, because of the excercises provided and because of the summaries and explanations of the poems. i am now able to "hear" the "sound of sense" that Frost refered to and i recommend this book to any beginner studying Frost's poetry for the first time.

A Servant to Servants
There's not much more I can add as the previous reviewer summed it up perfectly. All I can say is that I'm an English teacher and this is the must have Robert Frost edition for the OCR A-level Literature exam. Decent price here too.

Its good but three starts for a reason...
I was desperate for a student guide to help me with my AS english exam where 30% is poetry and Frost was my named poet. I bought this and was very disappointed at first glance. However, along with the annotations I had from class and the notes that the book had I found that actually it was very useful. It varies on how much detail it has on the poems. For most it is just the one paragraph which sometimes talks about what the poem is about and on others talks about the structure of the poem. It then has a few notes to help decipher the lines of some of the poems. This is a good book to get if you know the jist of the poems but need a little push in terms of what they're about and structure and other technical devices. I wouldn't rely on it if you know nothing at all and need to have a thorough knowledge which is why I've given it only three stars. However for me it was very helpful.
The content is mostly made up of various poems of his from his various collections (OCR students, all the named poems are in there) and then like I said there's around a paragraph of notes for each poem. At the back of the book there are also some exercises such as comparisons which are also helpful.