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The Collected Prose of Robert Frost
The Collected Prose of Robert Frost offers an extensive and illuminating body of work, ranging from juvenilia--Frost's contributions to his high school Bulletin--to the charming "chicken stories" he wrote as a young family man for The Eastern Poultryman and Farm Poultry, to such famous essays as "The Figure a Poem Makes" and the speeches and contributions to magazines solicited when he had become the Grand Old Man of American letters. Gathered, annotated, and cross-referenced by Mark Richardson, the collection is based on extensive work in archives of Frost's manuscripts. It provides detailed notes on the author's habits of composition and on important textual issues and includes much previously unpublished material. It is a book of boundless appeal and importance, one that should find a home on the bookshelf of anyone interested in Frost.
Abbreviations
1 Articles and Editorials from the Lawrence, Massachusetts, High School Bulletin
2 The American About and Abroad
3 Children's Stories
4 Stories for Eastern Poultryman and Farm-Poultry
5 Three Articles Associated with Pinkerton Academy
6 Remarks on Form in Poetry
7 Address before the Amherst Alumni Council
8 Address in Memory of J. Warner Fobes
9 Some Definitions by Robert Frost
10 Preface to Memoirs of the Notorious Stephen Burroughs
11 The Poetry of Amy Lowell
12 Marion Leroy Burton and Education
13 Introduction to The Arts Anthology of Dartmouth Verse
14 Poet--One of the Truest
15 Introduction to The Cow's in the Corn
16 Preface to A Way Out
17 Address at the Dedication of the Davison Memorial Library
18 Education by Poetry: A Meditative Monologue
19 Autobiographical Sketch
20 Comment on "Birches"
21 "Letter" to The Amherst Student
22 Introduction to King Jasper
23 Contribution to Books We Like
24 Introduction to Sarah Cleghorn's Threescore
25 Contribution to The Stag at Ease
26 Letter to the Editor of New Hampshire: A Guide
27 The Doctrine of Excursions
28 The Figure a Poem Makes
29 Remarks Accepting the Gold Medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters
30 The Last Refinement of Subject Matter: Vocal Imagination
31 Preface to a Selection of His Poems
32 Notes on "The Divine Right of Kings"
33 Contribution to 25th Anniversary Bread Loaf Booklet
34 The Four Beliefs
35 Preface to "The Death of the Hired Man"
36 The Constant Symbol
37 Speaking of Loyalty
38 Preface to "A Masque of Mercy"
39 A Romantic Chasm
40 Unpublished Contribution to Understanding Poetry
41 Letter to the American Booksellers' Association
42 Contribution to The World's Best
43 Poetry and School
44 Unfinished Preface to an Unpublished Collection of Poems by Hervey Allen
45 Contribution to Tufts Weekly
46 The Hear-Say Ballad
47 The Prerequisites
48 Message to the Poets of Japan
49 Caveat Poeta
50 Perfect Day--A Day of Prowess
51 Message to the Poets of Korea
52 Maturity No Object
53 Preface to A Swinger of Birches, by Sidney Cox (First Version and Published Version)
54 Contribution to Esquire's Symposium on "What Worries You Most about America Today?"
55 Merrill Moore
56 Statement of Robert Frost in the Case of the United States of America Versus Ezra Pound
57 Remarks on Being Appointed Consultant to the Library of Congress
58 The Way There
59 Preface to an Expanded Edition of North of Boston
60 Letter to the Editor of Poetry
61 Dorothy Canfield
62 List of Five Favorite Books
63 On Emerson
64 The Future of Man
65 The Future of Man (Unpublished Version)
66 Talk and Reading, 25th Anniversary Dinner of the Academy of American Poets
67 A Poet's Boyhood
68 "A New England Tribute"
69 Shakespeare Festival of Washington
70 Tribute to Ernest Hemingway
71 Comments on "Choose Something Like a Star"
72 Tribute to William Faulkner
73 Comments on "The Cold War Is Being Won"
74 Statement Concerning the Beginning of His Career
75 Press Release on Being Awarded the Bollingen Prize
76 Statement Written for the 53rd Annual Dinner of the Poetry Society of America
Editorial Principles
Notes
Line-End Hyphenation
Acknowledgment
General Index
Index of Items by Title
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