About Robert Frost: Sixteen Poems to Learn by Heart

Celebrate Robert Frost’s 150th birthday with a deluxe keepsake edition featuring 16 of his greatest poems—with brilliant essays highlighting his special genius and the power of memorization to unlock the magic of his language

During a public reading Robert Frost was once asked why he so frequently recited his poems from memory. With typical wit, he replied: “If they won’t stick to me, I won’t stick to them.” Remarkably among the modern poets, his poems “stick” to the reader: 

• “Mending Wall,” with its famous invocation of the rural maxim “Good fences make good neighbors”
• “The Road Not Taken,” about the beguiling possibilities of life
• “Birches,” which reminds us that “One could do worse than be a swinger of birches
• “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” with its unforgettable final line: “And miles to go before I sleep.”