In a 1970 review of The Poetry of Robert Frost, the poet Daniel Hoffman describes Frost's early work as "the Puritan ethic turned astonishingly lyrical and enabled to say out loud the sources of its own delight in the world," and comments on Frost's career as The American Bard: "He became a national celebrity, our nearly official Poet Laureate, and a great performer in the tradition of that earlier master of the literary vernacular, Mark Twain."

About Frost, President John F. Kennedy said, "He has bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever gain joy and understanding."

Robert Frost lived and taught for many years in Massachusetts and Vermont, and died in Boston on January 29, 1963.

Part 1
• Mending Wall (00:01:20)
• The Death of the Hired Man (00:03:45)
• The Mountain (00:12:20)
• A Hundred Collars (00:18:14)

Part 2
• Home Burial (00:00:18)
• The Black Cottage (00:06:16)
• Blueberries (00:12:56)
• A Servant to Servants (00:18:44)

Part 3
• After Apple-picking (00:00:16)
• The Code (00:02:16)
• The Generations of Men (00:08:01)
• The Housekeeper (00:18:55)

Part 4
• The Fear (00:00:16)
• The Self-seeker (00:05:27)
• The Wood-pile (00:16:35)
• Good Hours (00:18:47)