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Robert Frost

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Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1915

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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost (1923)

One of Frost’s own personal favorites, and one of his most anthologized, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” was published as a part of the New Hampshire collection, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1924.

The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost (1915)

One of the most misunderstood poems in the American canon, “The Road Not Taken” originated as a joke for his friend Edward Thomas. Frost complained that students he read it to took it too seriously, “despite doing my best to make it obvious by my manner that I was fooling. … Mea culpa” (Robinson, Katherine. “Robert Frost: ‘The Road Not Taken’.” Poetry Foundation).

Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost (1920)

Another classic Frost poem, “Fire and Ice,” also published in his New Hampshire collection, is a compact examination of the end of the world.

Further Literary Resources

Kay Ryan’s 2007 discussion with Curtis Fox of the Poetry Foundation features readings of Frost’s poem “Spring Pools” by both Frost himself and Kay Ryan. Ryan offers commentary on the poem and the poet, referring to his works as “the most beautiful American poems of the 20th century” (“

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