In the clearing / by Robert Frost.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frost, Robert, 1874-1963.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Rare Books Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Genre:

Lask Poetry Collection.

Authors' autographs.

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Lask, Thomas (donor) (RBC copy)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Mills, Malcolm Harkness (bookplate) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

101 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [©1962]

Summary:

Lyric verse, including the long poem, "The gift outright", read by the poet at President Kennedy's inauguration.

Contents:

Pod of the milkweed

Away!

Cabin in the clearing

Closed for good

America is hard to see

One more brevity

Escapist-never

For John F. Kennedy his Inauguration

Cluster of Faith: Accidentally on purpose

Never naught song

Version

Concept self-conceived

Forgive, O Lord

Kitty Hawk

Auspex

Draft horse

Ends

Peril of hope

Questioning faces

Does no one at all ever feel this way in the least?

Bad island-Easter

Our doom to bloom

Objection to being stepped on

A-wishing well

How hard it is to keep from being king when it's in you and in the situation

Lines written in dejection on the eve of great success

Milky Way is a cowpath

Some science fiction

Quandary: Quandary

Reflex

In a glass of cider

From iron

Four-room shack aspiring high

But outer space

On being chosen poet of Vermont

We vainly wrestle with the blind belief

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling

In winter in the woods alone.

Notes:

With half-title.

Page 7 has lines 219-224 and 246-257 of 'Kitty Hawk' in italics (called 'But God's Own Descent' in the contents.--Cf. Crane.

Slate gray cloth boards with the spine stamped in silver lettering from top to bottom.

"Jacket photograph by David H. Rhinelander."

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has bookplate "Ex Libris Malcolm Harkness Mills" on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Culture Class Collection copy is "Second Printing, March, 1962".

Athenaeum copy: No. 544 of 1500 copies, signed by the author.

Athenaeum copy: Sinkler bequest.

Athenaeum copy: In slipcase.

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Herman Potok January 1963 Philadelphia".

Potok Collection copy has "First Edition" statement wanting.

Cited in:

Crane, J. St. C. : Robert Frost a descriptive catalogue ..., A41.1

Other Format:

Online version: Frost, Robert, 1874-1963. In the clearing.

OCLC:

8086198