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Article: ROBERT FROST.(Review)
- Article from:
- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
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ROBERT FROST BY JAY PARINI HENRY HOLT & Co. 1999, 514 PAGES, $35.00
If you want to flabbergast your friends, casually ask them to name three American poets. Reading poetry is almost nonexistent for most people in the age of high-tech. This biography of one of the most popular American poets, Robert Frost, serves to remind us of better times, when the muses still occupied a place in our lives.
Frost probably is best known for his poems that focused on rural New England, although he was born in San Francisco in 1875. His father migrated from the northeastern U.S. to become an editor for a newspaper in San Francisco. Possessed of a fierce independent ...