Welcome to the Frost Free Library

 

with word search capability using Adobe Acrobat Reader

 

 

The Frost Free Library contains critical works on Frost's poetry that can be read on line or downloaded to your computer. We consider these works excellent reading. Our library is very small due to the time it takes to scan all the pages as text. It is also limited by the generosity of the copyright holder to allow reproduction on the web. The works in our library are out of print and therefore not easy to find. We gratefully acknowledge the help and cooperation of the original publishers of these works.

 

The Books and Essays may be read in two versions: standard HTML or PDF. You may read them on line, however due to their length, we recommend you download them to your computer. If you read them in the PDF format, Adobe Acrobat Reader Version 5 (or better) must be installed on your computer. This is a free download. Click here to get it. Follow the instructions to install it. It is very easy.

 

Using PDF and the Adobe Acrobat Reader you will be able to perform word search! You can search for poetic terminology, and references of all sorts. Each of the works has its own page covering "Search Tips" to alert you to things likely to be found in that work.

 

 

Contents    Books and Essays   Robert Frost on writing by Elaine Barry Part I "Frost As A Literary Critic" pages 3 through 53 reprinted here Published by Rutgers University Press New Brunswick, New Jersey (188 pgs) Copyright 1973 by Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey Frost's ideas on the art of poetry, technique, and theory. The Pastoral Art of Robert Frost by John F. Lynen Chapter 5 "Nature and Pastoralism" pages 140 through 161 reproduced here by permission of the publisher. All rights reserved by Yale University Press. Published by Yale University Press New Haven, CT 06520-9040 (208 pgs) Copyright 1960 by Yale University, Frost's use of nature. Comparison of Frost and Wordsworth.   Robert Frost & The New England Renaissance by George Monteiro   Published by The University Press of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0336 (176 pages) Copyright 1988 by The University Press of Kentucky All rights reserved by UPK. Reproduced here by permission of the publisher. Chapter 5 "Roads and Paths" The Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, and The Draft Horse are discussed in terms of literary traditions traced to Dante's, Inferno.   Chapter 13 "Linked Analogies" Frost's connection to Emerson is explored in two poems: The Tuft of Flowers and Mending Wall Audio  Frost Audio Listen to Frost say his poems. You must be equipped to hear sound and be patient while it downloads.      Periodicals   It Takes a Hero to Make a Poem Transcript of a conversation with Frost and Cecil Day Lewis, 1957 Reprinted from Claremont Quarterly, 1958 Frost speaks about style, form and the art of writing; the use of idiom and vernacular. Frost explains his phrase "a momentary stay against confusion." Where does a poem come from? The use of narrative and drama. Science, Religion and Gossip. A Poet and a National Symbol by James Reston Article in The New York Times, October 27, 1957 Frost became a familiar figure in Washington, D. C. in the late 1950's culminating with his appointment as Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress during the Eisenhower Administration. Here Frost talks about the United Nations and politics. Frost Discusses Poetry, Politics by Stephen Brumberg Article from the Williams Record, October 1960 Reprinted courtesy of the Williams Record, Williams College and the author, now Prof. Stephen F. Brumberg of Brooklyn College, CUNY Frost visits Williams College and talks with students. "Mending Wall" discussed. A Walk with Robert Frost by Reginald L. Cook Article from Yankee Magazine, November 1955. reprinted with permission Reminiscences of a colleague in Ripton, Vt. Acceptable in Heaven's Sight: Frost at Bread Loaf 1939 - 1941 by Peter J. Stanlis Essay from Frost Centennial Essays, Volume 3 (1978) A personal memoir of a student of Frost's, now an imminent Frost scholar. Poetry as Revelation by Peter J. Stanlis Address at University of Detroit, November 13, 1962 on the occasion of the conferring of an honorary degree of doctors of humane letters upon Robert Frost. Dr. Stanlis writes, "Mr. Frost remarked that it was like his own view of poetry, as it should be since I learned it from him."

 

 

 

 

 

          
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