Books: Untermeyer on Frost

COME IN AND OTHER POEMS—Robert Frost—Henry Holt & Co. ($2.50).

Editor Louis Untermeyer has made a sound selection of 83 poems from Robert Frost's seven published volumes. Frost has long tried to write poetry like the living speech of men & women. He has succeeded: of all distinctive U.S. poets, the New England laureate is perhaps the least mystifying. But Editor Untermeyer feels that Frost's readers will profit by added interpretations and comment. Sample:

"Although the poem does not attempt to teach anything, the city-bred reader will learn several things he may have missed...

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