''A Further Range'' is a poetry collection by
Robert Frost
Robert Lee Frost (March26, 1874January29, 1963) was an American poet. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American Colloquialism, colloquial speech, Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New E ...
published in 1936 by
Henry Holt and Company
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(
New York) and in 1937 by
Jonathan Cape
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(
London
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).
Reception
The political content of this volume of poetry was obvious to contemporary readers. Frost admitted that ''A Further Range'' “has got a good deal more of the times in it than anything I ever wrote before...One well known paper called me a 'counter-revolutionary' for writing it.” Frost’s deep concerns about
industrialization
Industrialisation (British English, UK) American and British English spelling differences, or industrialization (American English, US) is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an i ...
, organized labor, the
New Deal
The New Deal was a series of wide-reaching economic, social, and political reforms enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1938, in response to the Great Depression in the United States, Great Depressi ...
and the decline of the family farm are apparent in poems such as “A Lone Striker”, “Build Soil” and “A Roadside Stand”.
The collection was awarded the
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually for Letters, Drama, and Music. The award came five years after the first Pulitzers were awarded in other categories; Joseph Pulitzer's will had not ment ...
in 1937.
Contents
This volume is divided into 6 parts: 1-Taken Doubly; 2-Taken Singly; 3-Ten Mills; 4-The Outlands; 5-Build Soil; 6-Afterthought.
The dedication: "To E. F. for what it may mean to her that beyond the White Mountains were the Green; beyond both were the Rockies, the Sierras, and, in thought, the Andes and the Himalayas—range beyond range even into the realm of government and religion." "EF" is Elinor Frost, the poet's wife, to whom he dedicated every book of poetry until she died in 1938.
The poems had previously been published in ''The Saturday Review of Literature'', ''The Yale Review'', ''Poetry'', ''Scribner’s Magazine'', ''The Virginia Quarterly Review'', ''The Atlantic Monthly'', ''The American Mercury'', and ''Books, Direction and The New Frontier''.
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1936 poetry books
American poetry collections
Books by Robert Frost
English-language books
Henry Holt and Company books
Jonathan Cape books
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry–winning works
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