Robert Frost has written on almost every subject. But his central subject is humanity. His poetry lives with particular aliveness because it expresses living people. Other poets have written about people. But Robert Frost's poems are the people; they work, and walk about, and converse, and tell their stories with the freedom of common speech....Frost knows humanity without its "company manners."

An illustrated collection of twenty-six poems and excerpts from longer poems by the renowned nineteenth-century poet. Walt Whitman changed American poetry forever. He wrote poems that were open, flowing, charged with bold, passionate energy. He broke all the rules, and though this made him the target of criticism during his lifetime, he quickly emerged as one of America's best known and loved poets. Here, a Columbia University professor of literature...