Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing

by Richard Poirier

Overview

A Stanford UniversityPress classic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780804717410
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Publication date:	04/01/1990
Edition description:	1
Pages:	380
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.00(d)

Editorial Reviews

Never before has there been a more comprehensive collection of Frost in a single volume. Included are all of the plays, a generous selection of prose, all collected poems, and 94 uncollected poems, as well as 17 poems that were previously unpublished. The 1949 Complete Poems is the principle source for the poetry. In The Clearing (1962), as the only subsequent volume Frost published, is given a separate contents entry. Sources are given for all published and unpublished work. The 45 pages of notes cover the "significant differences" between first editions and the Complete Poems, including deleted dedications, notes and dates, and changes in wording. The notes also include helpful definitions and frequent attribution of quotation. Of the prose we are told that most of what is included "bears directly on [Frost's] work as a poet." Many of these texts are based on significant new editorial work by Richardson. Recommended for most collections.-Steven R. Ellis, Pennsylvania State Univ. Libs., State College

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