Mountain Interval

Mountain Interval is Robert Frost's third poetry collection and one of the central early books in his career. First published in 1916, the volume includes some of Frost's best-known poems, among them "The Road Not Taken," "Birches," "Out, Out-," "An Old Man's Winter Night," "The Oven Bird," and "The Sound of Trees." The collection shows Frost working with the New England landscape, rural labour, solitude, memory, danger, and the difficult moral weight carried by ordinary choices. Measured in language but often unsettling in implication, Mountain Interval presents Frost at the point where his public reputation was becoming firmly established. These poems are rooted in fields, woods, roads, farms, seasons, and household life, yet their concerns are never merely pastoral. They examine decision, loss, mortality, childhood, work, and the uneasy boundary between human intention and the natural world. For readers of American poetry, twentieth-century literature, New England writing, and classic verse, Mountain Interval remains an essential Robert Frost collection.d emotion . . . he is quite consciously and definitely putting New England life into verse. -Ezra PoundThe best poetry written in America in a long time.- William Butler Yeats