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by Robert Frost (Author)
New Hampshire is Robert Frost's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection that helped secure his place as a defining voice in American poetry.
Blending lyric intensity with conversational clarity, Frost's poems in this volume explore rural New England life, philosophical solitude, human boundaries, and the uneasy relationship between nature and civilization. The collection includes some of his most enduring works, among them "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," whose quiet cadence and meditative restraint exemplify Frost's distinctive style.
The title poem, "New Hampshire," is accompanied by prose notes and "grace notes," revealing Frost's ironic wit and reflective commentary on place, identity, and artistic purpose. Throughout the volume, Frost moves between pastoral imagery and metaphysical inquiry, presenting landscapes that are at once physical terrains and psychological states.
Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1924, New Hampshire stands as one of the central achievements of early twentieth-century American verse. This Wilder Publications edition presents the complete 1923 text, preserving the original structure and accompanying notes as first published.
- Poems included are:
- New Hampshire
- A Star in a Stone-Boat
- The Census-Taker
- The Star-Splitter
- Maple
- The Ax-Helve
- The Grindstone
- Paul's Wife
- Wild Grapes
- Place for a Third
- Two Witches
- - The Witch of Coos
- - The Pauper Witch of Grafton
- An Empty Threat
- A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey's Ears, and Some Books
- I Will Sing You One-O
- Fragmentary Blue
- Fire and Ice
- In a Disused Graveyard
- Dust of Snow
- To E.T.
- Nothing Gold Can Stay
- The Runaway
- The Aim Was Song
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- For Once, Then, Something
- Blue-Butterfly Day
- The Onset
- To Earthward
- Good-by and Keep Cold
- Two Look at Two
- Not to Keep
- A Brook in the City
- The Kitchen Chimney
- Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter
- A Boundless Moment
- Evening in a Sugar Orchard
- Gathering Leaves
- The Valley's Singing Day
- Misgiving
- A Hillside Thaw
- Plowmen
- On a Tree Fallen Across the Road
- Our Singing Strength
- The Lockless Door
- The Need of Being Versed in Country Things
