Chapter 19

“An Authentic Original Voice in Literature”—The Atlantic Monthly.ROBERT FROSTTHE NEW AMERICAN POETNORTH OF BOSTONALICE BROWN:“Mr. Frost has done truer work about New England than anybody—except Miss Wilkins.”CHARLES HANSON TOWNE:“Nothing has come out of America since Whitman so splendid, so real, so overwhelmingly great.”AMY LOWELL inThe New Republic:“A book of unusual power and sincerity. A remarkable achievement.”NEW YORK EVENING SUN:“The poet had the insight to trust the people with a book of the people and the people replied ‘Man, what is your name?’ ... He forsakes utterly the claptrap of pastoral song, classical or modern.... His is soil stuff, not mock bucolics.”BOSTON TRANSCRIPT:“The first poet for half a century to express New England life completely with a fresh, original and appealing way of his own.”BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE:“The more you read the more you are held, and when you return a few days later to look up some passage that has followed you about, the better you find the meat under the simple unpretentious form.The London Timescaught that quality when it said: ‘Poetry burns up out of it, as when a faint wind breathes upon smouldering embers.’ ... That is precisely the effect....”REEDY’S MIRROR:“Genuine poetry, these ‘North of Boston’ tales, they hold one with the grip of a vivid novel.... I can only refer my readers to ‘North of Boston’ for acquaintance with what seems to me a fine achievement; such achievement, indeed, as contributes vitally to the greatness of a country’s most national and significant literature.”A BOY’S WILLMr. Frost’s First Volume of PoetryTHE ACADEMY (LONDON):“We have read every line with that amazement and delight which are too seldom evoked by books of modern verse.”NORTH OF BOSTON.Cloth. $1.25 net, 4th printing.NORTH OF BOSTON.Leather. $2.00 net.A BOY’S WILL.Cloth. 75 cents net, 2d printing.34 WEST 33d STREETNEW YORKHENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

“An Authentic Original Voice in Literature”—The Atlantic Monthly.

ROBERT FROST

THE NEW AMERICAN POET

NORTH OF BOSTON

ALICE BROWN:“Mr. Frost has done truer work about New England than anybody—except Miss Wilkins.”CHARLES HANSON TOWNE:“Nothing has come out of America since Whitman so splendid, so real, so overwhelmingly great.”AMY LOWELL inThe New Republic:“A book of unusual power and sincerity. A remarkable achievement.”NEW YORK EVENING SUN:“The poet had the insight to trust the people with a book of the people and the people replied ‘Man, what is your name?’ ... He forsakes utterly the claptrap of pastoral song, classical or modern.... His is soil stuff, not mock bucolics.”BOSTON TRANSCRIPT:“The first poet for half a century to express New England life completely with a fresh, original and appealing way of his own.”BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE:“The more you read the more you are held, and when you return a few days later to look up some passage that has followed you about, the better you find the meat under the simple unpretentious form.The London Timescaught that quality when it said: ‘Poetry burns up out of it, as when a faint wind breathes upon smouldering embers.’ ... That is precisely the effect....”REEDY’S MIRROR:“Genuine poetry, these ‘North of Boston’ tales, they hold one with the grip of a vivid novel.... I can only refer my readers to ‘North of Boston’ for acquaintance with what seems to me a fine achievement; such achievement, indeed, as contributes vitally to the greatness of a country’s most national and significant literature.”A BOY’S WILLMr. Frost’s First Volume of PoetryTHE ACADEMY (LONDON):“We have read every line with that amazement and delight which are too seldom evoked by books of modern verse.”NORTH OF BOSTON.Cloth. $1.25 net, 4th printing.NORTH OF BOSTON.Leather. $2.00 net.A BOY’S WILL.Cloth. 75 cents net, 2d printing.

ALICE BROWN:

“Mr. Frost has done truer work about New England than anybody—except Miss Wilkins.”

CHARLES HANSON TOWNE:

“Nothing has come out of America since Whitman so splendid, so real, so overwhelmingly great.”

AMY LOWELL inThe New Republic:

“A book of unusual power and sincerity. A remarkable achievement.”

NEW YORK EVENING SUN:

“The poet had the insight to trust the people with a book of the people and the people replied ‘Man, what is your name?’ ... He forsakes utterly the claptrap of pastoral song, classical or modern.... His is soil stuff, not mock bucolics.”

BOSTON TRANSCRIPT:

“The first poet for half a century to express New England life completely with a fresh, original and appealing way of his own.”

BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE:

“The more you read the more you are held, and when you return a few days later to look up some passage that has followed you about, the better you find the meat under the simple unpretentious form.The London Timescaught that quality when it said: ‘Poetry burns up out of it, as when a faint wind breathes upon smouldering embers.’ ... That is precisely the effect....”

REEDY’S MIRROR:

“Genuine poetry, these ‘North of Boston’ tales, they hold one with the grip of a vivid novel.... I can only refer my readers to ‘North of Boston’ for acquaintance with what seems to me a fine achievement; such achievement, indeed, as contributes vitally to the greatness of a country’s most national and significant literature.”

A BOY’S WILLMr. Frost’s First Volume of Poetry

THE ACADEMY (LONDON):

“We have read every line with that amazement and delight which are too seldom evoked by books of modern verse.”

NORTH OF BOSTON.Cloth. $1.25 net, 4th printing.NORTH OF BOSTON.Leather. $2.00 net.A BOY’S WILL.Cloth. 75 cents net, 2d printing.

34 WEST 33d STREETNEW YORK

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY


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