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North of Boston: Classic American Poetry from New England's Defining Voice
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ISBN13: 9781515419426
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Nov 30 2017
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
North of Boston is Robert Frost's landmark second collection, the book that established him as one of the defining voices of modern American poetry. First published in 1914, the volume contains some of Frost's most enduring poems, including Mending Wall, The Death of the Hired Man, Home Burial, After Apple-Picking, and The Wood-Pile. Rooted in the speech, labour, landscape, silences, and moral tensions of rural New England, these poems gave American poetry a new dramatic plainness: formal, exacting, conversational, and emotionally severe.
Frost's achievement in North of Boston lies in his ability to make ordinary speech carry extraordinary weight. The poems are often narrative or dramatic in form, but beneath their farm walls, hired men, neighbours, roads, fields, and family rooms are questions of duty, grief, isolation, marriage, labour, mortality, and the limits of human understanding. For readers of classic poetry, American literature, New England writing, modern poetry, and twentieth-century verse, North of Boston remains one of the essential books in the American poetic tradition.
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