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    New Hampshire

    By Robert Frost

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    Robert Frost (1874–1963) was the most celebrated poet in America for most of the twentieth century. Although chiefly associated with the life and landscapes of New England, his work embodies penetrating and often dark explorations of universal themes. Frost received more than 40 honorary degrees, and the first of his four Pulitzer Prizes was awarded for this 1923 collection.
    New Hampshire features Frost's meditations on rural life, love, and death, delivered in the voice of a soft-spoken New Englander. Critics have long marveled at the poet's gift for capturing the speech of the region's natives and his realistic evocations of the area's landscapes. This compilation includes several of his best-known poems: "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Nothing Gold Can Stay," and "Fire and Ice" as well as verse based on such traditional songs as "I Will Sing You One-O." The poems are complemented by the atmospheric illustrations created for the original edition by Frost's friend, woodcut artist J. J. Lankes.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateFeb 13, 2019
    ISBN9780486838229
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    Robert Frost

    Robert Frost (1874–1963) was a poet who was much admired for his depictions of rural life in New England, command of American colloquial speech, and realistic verse portraying ordinary people in everyday situations.

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      In 1923 Robert Frost published his Selected Poems in the spring followed by this collection in November. The following year he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for it. In addition to the titular poem this collection includes the famous "Fire and Ice", a short poem with resonance from Dante and others. One of my favorites is "The Onset" that seems an appropriate poem to meditate upon as spring approaches. I think we can see a hint of Dante again in this poem with "the dark woods", and there is also the symbolism of winter coming, of snow falling, a beautiful imagery that a time will descend upon us where our lives are dull, tragic, painful or lonely. Yet in the second stanza hope appears with the recognition that "winter death has never tried the earth but it has failed:". By the end of the poem the transition from death to life is complete when one contrasts the white of "the gathered snow" at night to the living white of the birch tree and hope in family life symbolized by "a clump of houses" and the spiritual life of the church."Nothing will be left of white but here a birch,And there a clump of houses with a church."

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    New Hampshire - Robert Frost

    NEW HAMPSHIRE

    Robert Frost

    With Woodcut Illustrations by

    J. J. Lankes

    DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.

    MINEOLA, NEW YORK

    DOVER THRIFT EDITIONS

    GENERAL EDITOR: SUSAN L. RATTINER

    EDITOR OF THIS VOLUME: JANET B. KOPITO

    Copyright

    Copyright © 2019 by Dover Publications, Inc.

    All rights reserved.

    Bibliographical Note

    This Dover edition, first published in 2019, is an unabridged republication of the work first published by Henry Holt & Company, New York, in 1923. A new introductory Note has been specially prepared for the present edition.

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Names: Frost, Robert, 1874–1963, author. | Lankes, Julius J., 1884–1960, illustrator.

    Title: New Hampshire / Robert Frost ; with woodcut illustrations by J.J. Lankes.

    Description: Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, Inc., 2019. | Series:

    Dover thrift editions | This Dover edition, first published in 2019, is an unabridged republication of the work first published by Henry Holt & Company, New York, in 1923.

    Identifiers: LCCN 2018031747 | ISBN 9780486828305 | ISBN 0486828301

    Subjects: LCSH: New Hampshire—Poetry. | LCGFT: Poetry.

    Classification: LCC PS3511.R94 N4 2019 | DDC 811.5—dc23

    LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018031747

    Manufactured in the United States by LSC Communications

    82830101 2019

    www.doverpublications.com

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    KNOWN FOR HIS poems Fire and Ice, Nothing Gold Can Stay, and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Lee Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco. After his father, a teacher, died in 1885, Frost's mother moved the family to Lawrence, Massachusetts, where her family resided. Frost briefly attended Dartmouth College but left his studies to become, among other occupations, a teacher and a factory worker. He began writing poetry as a teenager, and one of his poems was accepted for his high school magazine. Frost's writing aspirations took flight with the publication of My Butterfly, An Elegy in the New York Independent in 1894. He married Elinor White in 1895, and they began their newlywed lives in Lawrence. Several years later, he attended Harvard University, but left without a degree due to illness. Frost's grandfather bought a farm in New Hampshire for the couple, and Frost applied himself to the farming life, with little success. More suitable was a return to teaching, and he became an instructor of English at several schools in New Hampshire.

    Frost and his family traveled to Great Britain in 1912. He continued to write, and in 1913 published his first poetry collection, A Boy's Will. North of Boston followed in 1914—both works were published in London, where Frost made the acquaintance of notable writers of the time, including Ezra Pound. Returning to the U.S. in 1915, in the midst of World War I, Frost bought a farm in New Hampshire—it became known as the Frost Place. He and Elinor were the parents of six children (two of whom died young). Again returning to teaching, Frost taught English at Amherst College, in Massachusetts, on and off until 1938 (Elinor Frost died that year). He also taught at Middlebury College, Vermont, where he was regarded as an important influence on the Bread Loaf School of English. As the warm climate of Florida appealed to him after years of enduring New England winters, Frost maintained a residence in South Miami, which he named Pencil Pines—a fond reference to his writing craft. As his influence and popularity grew, Robert Frost received many honorary degrees, as well as the Congressional Gold Medal. He recited his poem The Gift Outright at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy on January 20, 1961—because of the blinding sunlight, Frost was unable to read his prepared text.

    The three poems cited earlier—Fire and Ice, Nothing Gold Can Stay, and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening—are included in the present collection, for which Robert Frost was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1924. While literary iconoclasts such as Frost's contemporary, Ezra Pound, were experimenting with new poetic forms, Frost was seen as more of a traditionalist. Eschewing the ground-breaking techniques of Pound and the Modernists, Frost used free verse and conventional rhymes to spin narratives such as Wild Grapes: One day my brother led me to a glade / Where a white birch he knew of stood alone, / Wearing a thin head-dress of pointed leaves; as the boys climb to reach the birch's grapes, the narrator describes his panic as he becomes stranded at a great height: One by one I lost off my hat and shoes, / And still I clung. I let my head fall back, / And shut my eyes against the sun, my ears / Against my brother's nonsense; Drop, he said, / I'll catch you in my arms. After being shamed by his brother, the boy realizes, I had not taken the first step in knowledge; / I had not learned to let go with the hands, / As still I have not learned to with the heart. His true desire is to let go with the mind—Of cares, at night, to sleep. In this simply crafted verse, the poet acknowledges that his failure to take a leap of faith while suspended from the tree mirrors the challenges posed by the demands of both the heart and the mind, and a simply described incident takes on philosophical dimensions. In Maple, the poet considers the effect that a name has on the person upon whom it is bestowed: A girl named Maple discovers the significance of her unusual name. In the eight-line Dust of Snow, a bit of snow transforms the poet's mood; and the sighting of a doe and a buck by distracted lovers on a mountain creates a moment of clarity in Two Look at Two. Extremes of nature correspond to extremes of emotion in To Earthward, and, in Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter, Frost, who despite his embrace of Florida returned again and again to the New England landscape, creates a wintry scene that evokes the magic and mystery of the frigid season. Our

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