I was impressed by the wide range of topics Frost wrote poems about. Some of the poems read like short stories; one of them had a Poe feel to it.In all honesty, I bought this poetry collection solely for The Road Not Taken, but there were quite a lot of good poems in this one.
*You can also read this review and some other here at my website too.*One word- Awesome. I am not much of a poetry person and very rarely I like them. But I must say [a:Robert Frost|7715|Robert Frost|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1183232004p2/7715.jpg] is completely different. Each of the poem seem...
Very eclectic mixture. A lot more "author unknown" ballads than I like in any context not involving some sort of plucked string instrument such as a banjo or guitar (not electric! do not blaspheme!).
This book only remains unfinished because I'm not such a poetry lover that I can read a whole volume at once. However, this is a lovely collection of British poetry with great introductory bios by Louis Untermeyer. Many of the poets featured may be unfamiliar to American readers, which makes it an...
I have to say, I expected to like this book more than I did. I have been a fan of some of Frosts poems for years, but in reading this book I found that he has two distinct styles. One is simply narrative, which I found I did not like as much. His narratives are mostly conversational, and I found t...
I'm really a bit of a poetry-phobe myself and I'm trying very hard not to inflict my prejudices on my daughter. So, when I saw this reviewed on one of my favorite blogs I figured I should give it a shot. Bonus that I found it on amazon used for 20 cents! So, had this sitting around for about a we...
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