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A Boy's Will at Wikisource. A Boy's Will is a poetry collection by Robert Frost, and is the poet's first commercially published book of poems. The book was first published in 1913 by David Nutt in London, with a dedication to Frost's wife, Elinor. Its first American edition came two years later, in 1915, through Henry Holt and Company .
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Jan 14, 2022 · sister projects: Wikipedia article, Wikidata item. His first book of poetry, A Boy's Will, was first published by David Nutt in 1913 OCLC: 1214302 all editions, and by Holt in 1915 OCLC: 869355 all editions . The youth is persuaded that he will be rather more than less himself for having forsworn the world. He is happy in society of his choosing.
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Following its success, Henry Holt and Company republished Frost's first book in the United States, A Boy's Will, in 1915. The New York Times said in a review, "In republishing his first book after his second, Mr. Robert Frost has undertaken the difficult task of competing with himself." List of poems "The Pasture" (introductory poem)
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in the United States. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, [2] Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the ...
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Jan 17, 2009 · The bridegroom came forth into the porch. With, 'Let us look at the sky, And question what of the night to be, Stranger, you and I.'. The woodbine leaves littered the yard, The woodbine berries were blue, Autumn, yes, winter was in the wind; 'Stranger, I wish I knew.'. Within, the bride in the dusk alone.
A Boy’s Will was followed in 1914 by a second collection, North of Boston, that introduced some of the most popular poems in all of Frost’s work, among them “Mending Wall,” “The Death of the Hired Man,” “Home Burial,” and “After Apple-Picking.”. In London, Frost’s name was frequently mentioned by those who followed the ...
It is often unfair to judge a poet by his first book, and this is certainly true of Robert Frost's A Boy's Will (1913). The title, taken from a once-familiar refrain of Longfellow's (“A boy's will is the wind's will/ And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts"), suggests that Frost was conscious of the fact that this little collection—although first published in England when he was ...
