Frost's breakthrough collection, the book that made him famous on both sides of the Atlantic, written in blank verse dramatic monologues that capture rural New England speech with a subtlety no one had achieved before. "Mending Wall" and "The Death of the Hired Man" look like simple pastoral poetry and contain everything: property, community, obligation, grief. Beneath Frost's accessible surface runs a cold darkness that his reputation for optimism long obscured.

The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.