Mountain Interval
Early Poetry of Robert Frost

A Boy’s Will (1914) established Robert Frost’s reputation, but Mountain Interval (1916) maintained that reputation and enhanced it. The book contains four commonly acknowledged masterpieces (“The Road Not Taken,” “Birches,”“Out, Out--,” “The Oven Bird”) and a few other popular favorites, such as the......more

It may just be my minute aversion to poetry (I do like some poetry, don’t worry!), but this wasn’t very good. Most of the poems didn’t make sense or were boring. Some were cute and pleasant in their nature way, since that what Rob’s famous for, but the majority were super meh. The first poem in the......more

I'm guessing from this initial experience of reading a book of Robert Frost's that I'm not likely to love him as much as many others have over the decades. His name is holy in some quarters. There were several poems in this collection I genuinely loved: "The Road Not Taken" of course; "Birches" goes......more

Favorites: “In the Home Stretch,” “Birches,” “Putting in the Seed,” “The Hill Wife,” “The Bonfire,” “A Girl’s Garden,” and “Snow.”......more

Mountain Interval opens with "The Road Not Taken", Robert Frost's most famous (and most misunderstood) poem, but the remainder of the collection was unfamiliar to me on my initial reading. In many ways it's hard to review a poetry collection, since every poem is its own work of art, and essentially......more