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Robert Frost’s 10 favorite books, answered in 1934:
“‘The Odyssey’ chooses itself, the first in time and rank of all romances. Robinson Crusoe’ is never quite out of my mind. I never tire of being shown how the limited can make snug in the limitless.”
– “Walden,” Henry David Thoreau’s classic “Crusoe was cast away; Thoreau was self-cast away. Both found themselves sufficient. No prose writer has ever been more fortunate in subject than these two.”
Edgar Allan Poe’s stories. “Here is every kind of entertainment the short story can afford.”
“The Oxford Book of Verse” and “Modern American and British Poetry.”
James Fenimore Cooper’s “The Last of the Mohicans,” which “supplies us once and for all with our way of thinking of the American Indian.”
“The Prisoner of Zenda,” “surely one of the very best of our modern best-sellers.”
“The Jungle Book.” “I shall read it again as often as I can find a new child to listen to me.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Essays and Poems,” “the rapture of idealism either way you have it, in prose or in verse and in brief.”
