Based on the arrangement of The Poetry of Robert Frost(1969), Part One of this work attempts to identify Frost’s intentions by placing each poem in the biographical, historical and geographical context of his life. It further examines conscious and unconscious points of association, annotates words and phrases, and provides, when possible, a date of composition along with the place of publication. Part Two consists of an annotated bibliography of poems published during Frost’s life but uncollected at the time of his death and those published posthumously or yet collected.

Jeffrey S. Cramer is the curator of collections at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods. His essays and other writings have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The Literary Review, The Christian Science Monitor, and the collections Contemporary Literary Criticism and The Robert Frost Encyclopedia. His website is www.jeffreyscramer.com

Jeffrey S. Cramer
Format: softcover (5.5 x 8.5)
Pages: 304
Bibliographic Info: chronology, appendix, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2007 [1996]
pISBN: 978-0-7864-3090-1
eISBN: 978-1-4766-0742-9
Imprint: McFarland

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction     1
Chronology     5

Part One: A Companion to the Collected Poetry     9
Part Two: A Companion to the Uncollected and Unpublished Poetry     193

Appendix: Spurious and Doubtful Poems     269
Bibliography     273
Index     281

“useful complement…recommended for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students. Indispensable for Frost studies”—Choice; “In the past seven years—indeed in this decade—we have seen the appearance of major critical studies on Frost…ground breaking studies by…Jeffrey Cramer.”—Earl J. Wilcox, The Robert Frost Review.