The Poetry of Robert Frost : The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged
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The Poetry of Robert Frost : The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged
by Authors:
Robert Frost , Edward Connery Lathem
Released: 15 November, 1969
ISBN: 0805005021
Hardcover
Sales Rank: 6,457
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Customer Review #1:
 Amateurish audio production
This tape is poorly done. The tape quality is bad, and the production is cluttered with music and other background noise. Some of the readings are too fast, and some of the voices arent very pleasant to listen to. No index is provided, so you have to listen to the tape if you want to know whats on it, and you have no way of knowing whos reading what. This is annoying if you want to read along with the audio.If you buy this, buy the audio download instead of the tape. Audible.com cleaned it up considerably. One nice feature is that if you burn this onto a CD, each poem is on a separate track, as is done with songs on a music CD, except for a few longer pieces that run over to a second track.
For the record, there are 50 poems in this production. All but 2 of them, "Asking For Roses" and "Spoils Of the Dead," are in the print book by the same title.
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Customer Review #2:
 Still wonderful after all these years
I first owned this volume of poetry in 1978. That book simply fell apart after more than 20 years of reading and handling (sometimes roughly by my children). I replace this book with a new one just last year.
The old favorites are all here; Fireflies in the Garden, The Road Not Taken, Fire and Ice, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, and a hundred more. In my opinion this is the definitive volume on Frost.
I have always been awed by the number of poems Frost wrote about the stars. A Star on a Stoneboat, The Star Spitter, Stars, Canis Major and many others. Truly Robert Frost is the astronomers poet.
Also in this volume is perhaps my favorite Frost poem, Browns Descent.
If you love reading Frost on a crispy fall evening, then youll love reading him when the crickets chirp. Youll need to own this book.
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Customer Review #3:
The Poetry-Lovers Definitive Frost
Robert Frost was and is Americas greatest poet. Excepting, perhaps, W. B. Yeats, he may be the greatest poet to write English in the twentieth century. (To me, its a toss-up.) To read this volume systematically or desultorily is to become convinced of that. But Frost is, above all, accessible, so the casual reader may not appreciate the difficulty of what he does. Like much of the greatest art his looks easy, even inevitable.All of Frosts poems are here, plus his two dramatic Masques. When this book first appeared (in 1969) it caused a furor: the editor, it was angrily asserted, presumed too much. He dared to clarify - inserting a hyphen here, excising a comma there. That furor has since died down, as people realize that he did not do away with the sacred texts (any emendation was noted), but simply performed his job as editor. He regularized spelling and the use of single and double quotes (though not Capitalization, which can legitimately be thought of as integral to the poets expression (think of e.e. cummings!)), and corrected other obvious errors. The notes give the published variants for each poem, so if you wish you may make your own call on some of these finicky issues.
I cannot emphasize enough: BUY THE HARDCOVER! After all, you will be reading this book for the rest of your life. It is a beautifully-built volume, of an easy size and heft for use, with understated appealing typefaces and an exemplary design. Put out by Frosts long-time publisher, this is one of the few essential books of American literature.
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