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1North of Boston

By Robert Frost

One of the first collections of poetry by Robert Frost, published in 1914.<br /> (Summary written by Gesine)<br /><br /><strong>Contents</strong> (with beginning time): <ul><em>Part 1</em> <li>Mending Wall (00:01:20) </li> <li>The Death of the Hired Man (00:03:45) </li> <li>The Mountain (00:12:20) </li> <li>A Hundred Collars (00:18:14)</li> </ul> <ul><em>Part 2</em> <li>Home Burial (00:00:18)</li> <li>The Black Cottage (00:06:16)</li> <li>Blueberries (00:12:56)</li> <li>A Servant to Servants (00:18:44)</li> </ul> <ul><em>Part 3</em> <li>After Apple-picking (00:00:16)</li> <li>The Code (00:02:16)</li> <li>The Generations of Men (00:08:01)</li> <li>The Housekeeper (00:18:55)</li> </ul> <ul><em>Part 4</em> <li>The Fear (00:00:16)</li> <li>The Self-seeker (00:05:27)</li> <li>The Wood-pile (00:16:35)</li> <li>Good Hours (00:18:47)</li> </ul>

LibriVox volunteers bring you twenty-three different recordings of <em>Fire and Ice</em>, by Robert Frost. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of August 27th, 2006.

Robert Frost, who lived from March 26, 1874 to January 29, 1963, was a winner of 4 Pulitzer prizes and one of America’s best loved poets. This selection of his poems is a short walk through the variety of his simplistic natural themes and complex social understandings. (Summary by Becky Miller, Canal Winchester, Ohio)

<i>A Boy's Will</i> is Robert Frost's first full volume of poetry. Issued when Frost was approaching forty, it established his reputation and created a revolution in American poetry. With this publication, Frost became an established poet. He later became the major American poet of the twentieth century.<p><i>A Boy's Will</i> is characteristic of Frost's ability to conjure photographically clear physical images while ruminating on the complexities of the human condition, its frailties and strengths, and its temporal state, like that of his beloved New England landscape. (Summary by Becky Miller)

5Good Hours

By Robert Frost

LibriVox volunteers bring you 41 different recordings of <em>Good Hours</em> by Robert Frost. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 9th, 2007.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of <em>My November Guest</em> by Robert Frost. This was the fortnightly poetry project for November 16th to 30th, 2008.

By his own admission, Thomas Frost found it hard to make a living from his writing, and no doubt he used the name of Dickens in the title of this book to boost sales. Frost tells a good tale, and the book is not only of interest to enthusiasts of Dickens and the county of Kent.<BR/><BR/>He includes some of Dickens' own descriptions of locations, as well as regaling us with anecdotes about towns and villages which he visits, including an account of the last armed rising on British soil - the Battle of Bossenden Wood.<BR/><BR/>As well as accounts of his travels through the highways and byways of Kent in the footsteps of Dickens and his characters, he also wanders into the lanes of myth and legend, sometimes making up his own stories along the way.<BR/><BR/>After managing to forgive his cardinal sin of confusing Men of Kent and Kentish Men in the first chapter, I found this rather odd mixture of memoir, short stories and literary travelogue a most enjoyable read. (Summary by Ruth Golding)

8Boy's Will (version 2)

By Robert Frost

Robert Frost preferred to describe the New England countryside using everyday language. He used both as tools to explore world views and life philosophies. <i>A Boy's Will</i> was his first poetry anthology. (Summary by Bill Boerst)

9Birches

By Robert Frost

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Birches by Robert Frost. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 21st, 2010.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of <i>The Hillside Thaw</i> by Robert Frost. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 5th, 2013.

11American Egypt

By Channing Arnold and Frederick J. Tabor Frost

Arnold and Frost were English archaeologists who traveled to the Yucatan Peninsula and wrote "the first book ever written by Englishmen on Yucatan—that Egypt of the New World, where, it is now generally admitted, Central American Civilisation reached its apogee—and to be, for the present at least, the only Englishmen who can claim to have explored the uncivilised north-eastern portions of the Peninsula and the islands of her eastern coast." Their studies brought them to the conclusion, contrary to the bulk of the body of other contemporary experts, "that America's first architects were Buddhist immigrants from Java and Indo-China." Summary by Lynne Thompson.

12Mountain Interval

By Robert Frost

Originally published in 1916 and revised in 1920, <i>Mountain Interval</i> is Robert Frost's third collection of solo poetry. In it, Frost reflects on human tragedies and fears, expresses his reaction to the complexities of life, and ultimately accepts his own personal burdens. The collection prefaces itself with one of Frost's best known poems, "The Road Not Taken." - Summary by Mary Kay and Bartleby <br><br><b>Cast list for "Snow"</b><br>Narrator: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/6548">Kristin Gjerløw</a><br>Mr. Cole: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/3157">TriciaG</a><br>Mrs. Cole: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8051">Maria Kasper</a><br>Meserve: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8539">Ray Kasper</a><br>Edited by Maria Kasper

<i>New Hampshire</i> is a volume of poems written by Robert Frost, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize. The titular poem is the longest, and it has cross-references to 14 of the following poems. These are the "Notes" in the book title. The "Grace Notes" are the 30 final poems. Contained in this collection are some of Frost's best known works, such as "Fire and Ice", "Nothing Gold Can Stay", and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". (Summary by TriciaG)

14Mountain Interval (version 2)

By Robert Frost

Mountain Interval is a 1916 poetry collection written by American writer Robert Frost. It is Frost's third poetic volume and was published by Henry Holt. It was republished in 1920. Frost made several alterations in the sequencing of the collection and released a new edition in 1921. Five lyrics of the earlier collection were compiled next under the title "His Wife". In this volume only three poems are written in dramatic monologue. Summary by Wikipedia

LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost.<br> This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 6, 2019. <br> ------<br> The meanings of this poignant poem--which entered the Public Domain in January 2019 and is being added to the Librivox Collection ASAP--range from appreciation of a simple New Hampshire snowstorm scene to reflections on death. Whose house is in the village? What promises need keeping? The poem can be interpreted on many different levels. Quoting Wikipedia: "At the funeral of former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau, on October 3, 2000, his eldest son Justin rephrased the last stanza of this poem in his eulogy: 'The woods are lovely, dark and deep. He has kept his promises and earned his sleep.'" ( ~ Michele Fry)

16Selected Poems

By Robert Frost

These are poems selected by the publisher, Henry Holt & Company reprinted from "Mountain Interval" "North of Boston" and "A Boy's Will." Included are some of Robert Frost's best known poems such as "Mending Wall" and "The Road Not Taken," but also some of his longer poems that are dialogs, or conversations, presented in a unique way as collaborative productions by a group of talented readers - Summary by Larry Wilson

In this book, aimed at children, the author provides a brief profile of 35 different bird species. Strangely for a book titled <i>The Birds of the Air</i>, the first two birds featured are flightless birds: the ostrich and the cassowary. - Summary by Elsie Selwyn

A collection of 38 of Robert Frost's early poems apparently compiled in 1923 but not published until 1928. This was not Frost's most popular release, perhaps, but poet and literary critic Louis Untermeyer was clearly enthusiastic about this book upon its release, which includes Frost's well-known 'Acquainted with the Night.' The poems are divided into 6 categories: Spring Pools (11), Fiat Nox (10), West-Running Brook (1), Sand Dunes (6), Over Back (4), and My Native Simile (7). ~Summary by KevinS

19Circus Life and Circus Celebrities

By Thomas Frost

Discover the exciting, shocking, and sometimes strange world of the 19th century big top! In Circus Life and Circus Celebrities, you'll read real-life stories of circus performers, animal acts, scandals, accidents and more. Note: This book used racial terms and descriptions reflective of colonial attitudes from the 19th century. These views are outdated and offensive by today’s standards. - Summary by Carrie Streb

Biography of Franz Schubert - Summary by barbara2