Hello, for my next project I'd like to work on this collection I previously proposed in
this thread. I'm using a new account, so for reference I previously worked on
Demian by Herman Hesse.
In summary, I want to make a single Robert Frost poetry omnibus with all his work published before 1930. The bulk of the content would be Frost's five main collections published before that year:
-
A Boy's Will (1913) (
scans) (
PG)
-
North of Boston (1914) (
scans) (
PG) (
SE)
-
Mountain Interval (1916) (
scans) (
PG)
-
New Hampshire (1923) (
scans) (
PG) (
SE)
-
West Running Brook (1928) (
scans) (
FP)
Each collection (as they were originally released) would be a section/chapter of omnibus. An additional section would contain all uncollected poetry that wasn't included in any of these. And for the sake of simplifying the work maintaining the project, poems that are in the public domain but were included in later collections will not be included in this section. Instead, they'll be included once the entire collection enters the public domain.
I've documentec Frost's uncollected/unreleased poems in
this spreadsheet, based on the book
Robert Frost Among His Poems. Most of the ones released before 1930 have a scan link attached to them. Of the ones that do not, four are from Frost's "first" poetry collection
Twilight and likely can't be included in this omnibus (see the note attached to them), and three are from
A Boy's Will, which are only included due to a technicality (see the note). For the rest I haven't found scans yet, so I'll list them here in case someone is able to find them online:
- "Slipshod Rhymes" (published in The Pinkerton Critic, December 1909)
- "A Kitchen in School, or, Goings On at a Staid Old New Hampshire Academy"
(published in The Pinkerton Critic, May 1910)
- "Good Relief" (published in Come Christmas, 1929)
I'll likely be able to obtain a scan of the last one in the near future, but the first two don't seem to exist anywhere. The poem "Class Hymn" also doesn't have a scan attached, but that's only because I haven't uploaded it yet (will take care of it probably tomorrow).
Additionally, six uncollected/unreleased poems were added to Frost's 1930 omnibus collection Collected Poems. Four of these had been previously published, and two of them were previously unreleased. The first four can be included in this omnibus, and I've collected scans for them:
- "Locked Out (As Told to a Child)" (1917) (
link)
- "The Same Leaves" (1926) (
link)
- "The Walker" (1928) (
link, later renamed "The Egg and the Machine")
- "The Lovely Shall be Choosers" (1929) (
link)
Do note that the scan for "Locked Out" is not exactly official, so a better one is likely needed. If one can't be found, this poem can be omitted for now and be added next year using scans of Collected Poems.
Side Note: I've moved the spreadsheets/scans from my previous account to this one, so the spreadsheet links in my previous post will likely stop working in the future.
(Also, you can call me Sasha or Alexander to avoid confusion)