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This new biography of Robert Frost offers a major reassessment of the life and work of America's premier poet - the only truly "national poet" America has yet produced. Jay Parini began working on this book in 1975, interviewing friends of Frost and working in the poet's archives at Dartmouth, Amherst, and elsewhere.
Elegantly, yet simply, he traces the various stages of Frost's colorful life: his boyhood in San Francisco, his young manhood in rural New England, his college days at Dartmouth and Harvard, the years of farming in New Hampshire, the three-year sojourn in England, where he befriended Edward Thomas, Ezra Pound, and other central figures of modern poetry.
Following the astounding rise of the poet's fame in America upon his return from England in 1915, Parini shows how Frost gradually evolved from poet to cultural icon, becoming a friend of presidents, a sage whose pronouncements attracted world press attention. Yet Parini always takes the reader back to the poetry itself, which he reads closely, offering a sensitive road map to Frost's remarkable verbal planet.
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Robert Frost: A Life
March 15, 2000, Owl Books
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"I know San Francisco like my own face," Robert Frost once told an audience in that city, late in his life."
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