New Hampshire is Robert Frost's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection that helped secure his place as a defining voice in American poetry.
Blending lyric intensity with conversational clarity, Frost's poems in this volume explore rural New England life, philosophical solitude, human boundaries, and the uneasy relationship between nature and civilization. The collection includes some of his most enduring works, among them "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," whose quiet cadence and meditative restraint exemplify Frost's distinctive style.
The title poem, "New Hampshire," is accompanied by prose notes and "grace notes," revealing Frost's ironic wit and reflective commentary on place, identity, and artistic purpose. Throughout the volume, Frost moves between pastoral imagery and metaphysical inquiry, presenting landscapes that are at once physical terrains and psychological states.
Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1924, New Hampshire stands as one of the central achievements of early twentieth-century American verse. This Wilder Publications edition presents the complete 1923 text, preserving the original structure and accompanying notes as first published.Poems included are:
New Hampshire
A Star in a Stone-Boat
The Census-Taker
The Star-Splitter
Maple
The Ax-Helve
The Grindstone
Paul's Wife
Wild Grapes
Place for a Third
Two Witches
- The Witch of Coos
- The Pauper Witch of Grafton
An Empty Threat
A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey's Ears, and Some Books
I Will Sing You One-O
Fragmentary Blue
Fire and Ice
In a Disused Graveyard
Dust of Snow
To E.T.
Nothing Gold Can Stay
The Runaway
The Aim Was Song
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
For Once, Then, Something
Blue-Butterfly Day
The Onset
To Earthward
Good-by and Keep Cold
Two Look at Two
Not to Keep
A Brook in the City
The Kitchen Chimney
Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter
A Boundless Moment
Evening in a Sugar Orchard
Gathering Leaves
The Valley's Singing Day
Misgiving
A Hillside Thaw
Plowmen
On a Tree Fallen Across the Road
Our Singing Strength
The Lockless Door
The Need of Being Versed in Country Things
