Rachel's Reviews > Selected Poems of Robert Frost: Illustrated Edition

Well, this is a lovely collection of poems to read slowly, savoring the ones that just hit you as "special." The book even smells good, weird as that may sound. The pages just have this perfect "book smell" that made picking up this book even better.

There are definitely some good poems in here, like the classic "Birches," "Mending Wall," "Design," and "After Apple-Picking", and there are some lesser-known ones I discovered I really liked as well--"Snow Dust,""Evening in a Sugar Orchard," and "Going for Water."

Plus, while some poems celebrated winter, a lot of the other poems gave me a wonderful hope for spring. :) Which is EXCELLENT because, right now, there's like a -10 degree windchill outside my house.

However...my favorite poem of his, "Stopping by a Woods on a Snowy Evening," was not included in this early collection of his--probably because that is a later poem. Still, I miss that one. That would make this collection complete.

Also, I don't think this can really be called an "illustrated edition," which implies that the illustrations are taken directly from the poems. Not true. While the illustrations are lovely, some are repeated, and most don't directly match the poems on the page with the pictures.

Still a lovely, lovely copy. I'd recommend to anyone who likes poetry, especially lovers of Robert Frost or nature.