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A Boy's Will

	List Price: $8.95 Our Price: $8.95 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Publisher: Book Jungle Written By: Robert Frost
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 811 EAN: 9781604242744 ISBN: 1604242744 Label: Book Jungle Manufacturer: Book Jungle Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 48 Publication Date: 2007-09-27 Publisher: Book Jungle Studio: Book Jungle
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Editorial Review: Robert Frost is one of America's best-loved poets. His simple style and his frequent theme of rural life in New England make his poetry a delight to read. This first poetry book of Frost deals with man's fears and tragedies, man's reaction to life and man's acceptance of his trials.
Reader Reviews for A Boy's Will: Customer Rating: Summary: A Work of Function and Form Comment: The first and best collection from this prolific, pastoral, and perpetually evocative poet. If you haven't already found it be sure to look at the version put out by Perscribo Publishing (search "Perscribo" in the Kindle store). Content and function are one thing. Formatting is everything. Customer Rating: Summary: Into My Own Comment: Frost wrote this first collection of poems when he was forty, and it was published to rather diminutive attention in England, where Frost was staying. There were not many favorable American reviews, except for Ezra Pound's, who, like Emerson noticing Whitman, saw something of the poet in Frost. I have little else to add to Solinas's review except that these poems are not entitled A Man's Will, but A Boy's Will. This, I think, is Frost's aknowledgment of his immaturity, his ambition, and the continued wonder and fascination of his poetic eye, which, like the Wordsworth in Tintern Abbey, mingles the awe of childhood with the draughts of age. Customer Rating: Summary: How the world found Frost Comment: Robert Frost came into public view with "A Boy's Will," his first short collection of poetry. While Frost's "voice" is a bit unformed in these poems, the rich ponderings of nature and love are never stronger, full of "sun-saturated meadows," November-loving girls, and pearly streams. "I should not be withheld but that some day/Into their vastness I should steal away," Frost announces in his first poem. He follows up this statement with everything from eerie story-poems ("Love and a Question") to exultant ("A Prayer in Spring") to melancholy meditations on nature's beauty, love, and broken hearts. Poets take awhile to reach their peak, and Frost was still starting out in "A Boy's Will." That said, it's astounding how good he was even in his first volume of poetry (though at times the rhymes are a little too simple, and the subjects don't vary much). Most striking is Frost's passion -- his enthusiasm, sorrow and thoughts seem to spill off the page. What really makes Frost's poetry come alive is his descriptions of nature -- one poem is entirely devoted to a moonlit search for a brook, since the well has gone dry. Sylvan god Pan even makes a cameo in one poem, an enjoyable little bit about Pan surveying an uninhabited forest. However, he ventures out of the woods from time to time, such as the stirring historical poem "In Equal Sacrifice," about Douglas carrying Robert the Bruce's heart to the Holy Land. "A Boy's Will" is a stirring -- though very short -- collection of Robert Frost's poetry, and has the prestige of introducing this poet to the world. While Frost's poetry still had some growing pains, its beauty and richness make up for any flaws.

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