Selected Poems.

FROST, Robert.

Item Number: 119721

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1934.

First edition of the revised 1934 edition. Octavo, original cloth.  Signed by the author on the title page to the Amherst College fraternity with the lines from Frost’s poem The Tuft of Flowers added, “Men work together, I told him from the heart Whether they work together or apart. To Theta Delta Chi Robert Frost.” The Tuft of Flowers is included in this volume. Frost was a professor at Amherst College from 1926 to 1938 (among other stretches). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. With  the bookplate of Amherst College Fraternity Theta Delta Chi, presented by Brother Meyer, Class of 1935. Photograph of Frost by Doris Ullman.

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.