ABOUT THE BOOK

Mountain interval is a 1916 poetry collection. The author (Robert Frost) made several alterations in the sequencing of the collection and released the new edition in 1921. Poems included, namely, The Road not Taken; Christmas Trees; An Old Man's Winter Night; The Exposed Nest; A Patches of old Snow; In the Home Stretch; The Telephone Machine; Meeting and Passing; Hyla Brook; The Oven Bird; Bond and Free; Birches; Pea Brush; Putting in the seed; A Time to Talk; The cow in Apple Time; The Encounter Range Finding; The Hill Wife; The Bon fire; A Girl Garden. Very few poet has written so well about the actions of ordinary men. In these poems the author representing a wide range of human experience in his poems.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Robert Frost (1874-1963), American poet best known for his realistic depictions of rural New England life. First published in England, his work was long ignored in his own country. Once established, he became one of America's best loved and most honoured poets. After his father death in 1885, when young Frost was 11, the family left California and settled in Massachusetts. He attended high school in that State, entered Dartmouth College but remained less than one semester. Returning to Massachusetts, he taught school and worked in a mill and as a newspaper reporter. In 1894 he sold “My Butterfly: An Elegy” to the independent, a New York literary journal. Over the next ten years he wrote poems, operated a farm in Derry, New Hampshire and supplemented his income by teaching at Derry's Pinkerton Academy. Frost sailed for the United States in 1915 and landed in New York City two days after the U.S. publication of “North of Boston” Sales of that book and of “A Boy's Will” enabled Frost to buy a farm in Franconia, New Hampshire; to place new poems in literary periodicals and publish a third book, Mountain Interval in 1916. Frost won four Pulitzer Prizes namely, New Hampshire (1923); Collected Poems (1930); A Further Range (1936) and A Witness Tree (1992). Frost's poetic and political conservatism caused him to lose favour with some literary critics. He died in 1963.

CONTENTS

•             THE ROAD NOT TAKEN - 9                                                                            
•             CHRISTMAS TREES - 11
•             AN OLD MAN'S WINTER NIGHT - 14
•             A PATCH OF OLD SNOW - 15
•             IN THE HOME STRETCH - 16
•             THE TELEPHONE - 24
•             MEETING AND PASSING - 25
•             HYLA BROOK - 26
•             THE OVEN BIRD - 27
•             BOND AND FREE - 28
•             BIRCHES - 29
•             PEA BRUSH - 31
•             PUTTING IN THE SEED - 32
•             A TIME TO TALK - 33
•             THE COW IN APPLE TIME - 34
•             AN ENCOUNTER - 35
•             RANGE-FINDING - 36
•             THE HILL WIFE - 37
•             I LONELINESS HER WORD - 37
•             II HOUSE FEAR - 37
•             III THE SMILE HER WORD - 38
•             IV THE OFT-REPEATED DREAM - 38
•             V THE IMPULSE - 39
•             THE BONFIRE - 41
•             A GIRL'S GARDEN - 45
•             THE EXPOSED NEST - 48
•             " OUT, OUT " - 50
•             BROWN'S DESCENT OR THE WILLY-NILLY SLIDE - 52
•             THE GUM-GATHERER - 56
•             THE LINE-GANG - 58
•             THE VANISHING RED - 59
•             SNOW -61
•             THE SOUND OF THE TREES - 75