Robert Lee Frost
Male : Poet & author,
especially of the New England rural scene. He married his childhood
sweetheart, Elinor White in 1895, but of their children - one died
young, one committed suicide and one ended up in an institution. Frost
moved to England in 1912 and stayed for 3 years.
Nationality : American
Place of Birth : San Francisco
Date of Birth : 1874 Date of Death : 1963 Age : 87
Other Work : Prof of Poetry at Harvard
Education : Lawrence HS, Massachusetts, Dartmouth College & Harvard
All US Editions by Holt unless stated
1894-1920
(Twilight) Five Poems (1894)
A Boy's Will (1913 David Nutt, UK) (1915 Holt, NY)
North of Boston (1914 D Nutt, UK) (1914)
Mountain Interval (1916)
1921-1930
New Hampshire : A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes (1923) - J J Lankes. PULITZER PRIZE
Selected Poems (1923 Heinemann)
West-Running Brook (1928)
The Lovely Shall be Choosers (1929 Random House) - 475
A Way Out : One-Act Play (1929 Harbor Press, NY)
The Cow's in the Corn (1929) - Play
Collected Poems (1930 Random House) (1930 Longman)
1931-1940
Two Letters (1931)
The Lone Striker (1933 Knopf)
(In) The Best Poems of 1935 (selected by Thomas Moult) (1935 Cape)
The Golden Hesperides (1935)
Book Six : A Further Range (1936) (1937 Cape)
From Snow to Snow (1936)
Selected Poems (1936 Cape) - intro essay by W H Auden
Collected Poems (1939)
A Considerable Speck (1939)
1941-1950
A Witness Tree (1942 Spiral Press - 735 signed) (1943 Cape)
Come In & Other Poems (1943)
A Masque of Reason (1945) - 800 signed (1948 Cape)
The Courage to be New (1946)
Poems (1946)
Steeple Bush (1947)
A Masque of Mercy (1947 Holt) - 751
The Complete Poems (1949) (1951 Cape)
The Complete Poems (1950 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 2 vols. 1500 signed. T W Nason
1951-1960
Hard Not to be King (1951 House of Books)
One More Bevity (1953)
Birches (1953 Ayer Press)
Aforesaid (1954)
Selected Poems (1955 Penguin)
New Hampshire : A Poem (1955 Dresden Press, New Hampshire)
Kitty Hawk (1956)
My Objection to Being Stepped On (1957 PP, Spiral, NY)
Away (1958) - Stefan Mantia
A Wishing Well (1959 Blumenthal NY) - T W Mason
Accidentally on Purpose (1960 Spiral Press)
1961 Onwards
Dedication : The Gift Outright (1961)
Six Poems (1961 NY) - with Carl Sandburg
The Prophets Really Prophesy as Mystics... (1962 Ann & Joseph Blumenthal, NY)
In the Clearing (1962 Holt, Rinehart & Winston) (1962 Holt UK)
Frost and John Bartlett : The Record of a Friendship (1963) - Edited by M B Anderson
Letters to Louis Untermeyer (1963)
Frost : Farm-Poultryman (1963) - Edited by E C Lathem & L Thompson
Selected Letters (1964)
Frost : Life and Talks-Walking (1965) - Edited by Louis Mertins
Selected Prose (1966)
Interviews with Frost (1967) - Edited by E C Lathem
The Poetry of Robert Frost (1969) (1971 Cape)
One Favored Acorn (1969 Middlebury College)
Family Letters of Robert and Elinor Frost (1972) - Edited by Arnold Grade
Frost on Writing (1973) - Edited by Elaine Barry
A Time to Talk (1973) - Edited by Robert Francis
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
The Death of the Hired Man
After Apple-Picking
Collected Poems, Prose & Plays (1996 Library of America $35)
READING
W B S Clymer & C R Green : Robert Frost - A Bibliography (1937 Amherst, Mass)
Lawrance Thompson : Robert Frost (1966-76) - 3 vols
James L Potter : The Robert Frost Handbook (1981 Penn State UP £9)
William H Pritchard : Frost - A Literary Life (1985 OUP £14.95)
Jeffrey Meyers : Robert Frost - A Biography (1996 Constable £20)
Jay Parini : Robert Frost - A Life (1999 Heinemann £20)