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With his second collection, North of Boston, Robert Frost invites the reader to enter his world: “I’m going out to clean the pasture spring…You come too.” Invoking the tradition of pastoral poetry, Frost sets himself apart as a writer familiar with the work required of rural life while composing a plainspoken music capable of “mak[ing] gaps even two can pass abreast.”

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.” These words, from “The Road Not Taken, ” form arguably the most famous single line in all American poetry. Taking as his theme the fine line between will and fate, Frost opens his third collection, Mountain Interval, with an undeniable masterpiece, setting the stage for the poems to come, for their attentive and plainspoken music.

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.” For over a century, Robert Frost’s poetry has struck readers for its simple, plainspoken language and quiet devotion to the soul of the natural world. Selected Poems is a generous sampling of some of the poet’s early works, including “The Road Not Taken, ” “After-Apple Picking, ” and “Mowing.”

Robert Frost is a poet of memories and ghosts, silences and sorrows. His music is made by the rhythms of nature: the flutter of bats at dusk, the cry of the lone whippoorwill, his images lie in the earth for the moss and grapevines to cover. A Boy’s Will is Frost’s first collection of poems.