Mountain Interval

In a 1916 review of Mountain Interval, Poetry editor Harriet Monroe noted that "nature is always...an integral part of Mr. Frost's human dramas - not a mere background but one of the cast." Published in 1916, Frost's third poetry collection features a number of notable poems that place the beauty and harshness of the New England environment front and center, from "Birches" ("I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree/ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk/Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more") to "Snow" ("I'd rather be the beast that sleeps the sleep/Under it all, his door sealed up and lost/Than the man fighting to keep above it"). Also included is the Frost classic "The Road Not Taken," with an opening line that has become familiar to countless American schoolchildren over the years: "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood..."