Robert Frost: Poetry and Prose.

FROST, Robert. Edited by Edward Connery Lathem and Lawrence Thompson.

Item Number: 137295

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972.

First edition of this collection of some of Frost’s best-known poems. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Edith Dreikurs.

American poet Robert Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime and is the only poet to receive four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. He became one of America's rare "public literary figures, almost an artistic institution" and was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 for his poetic works. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes.