Oxford Student Texts: Robert Frost: Selected Poems

I really love Frost's poetry, folksy, plain and homely but with deeper underlying meaning, so I am pleased with the poetry, how could I not be, but this particular copy, though extremely cheap has been written over to such an extent that reading the poetry is difficult. Considering the fact that I have bought copies of other books for 1p and they have been absolutely pristine, this is pretty awful.

Clearly laid out and referenced

The parcel was completely torn open on one edge. Luckily the books were perfect

Heavy underlining and margin scribbles in dark blue ink. Most pages were clear, but this ruined the book for me.

Excellent

some nice poety

Great book and arrived on time

I was desperate for a student guide to help me with my AS english exam where 30% is poetry and Frost was my named poet. I bought this and was very disappointed at first glance. However, along with the annotations I had from class and the notes that the book had I found that actually it was very useful. It varies on how much detail it has on the poems. For most it is just the one paragraph which sometimes talks about what the poem is about and on others talks about the structure of the poem. It then has a few notes to help decipher the lines of some of the poems. This is a good book to get if you know the jist of the poems but need a little push in terms of what they're about and structure and other technical devices. I wouldn't rely on it if you know nothing at all and need to have a thorough knowledge which is why I've given it only three stars. However for me it was very helpful.The content is mostly made up of various poems of his from his various collections (OCR students, all the named poems are in there) and then like I said there's around a paragraph of notes for each poem. At the back of the book there are also some exercises such as comparisons which are also helpful.