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Article: NEW LOOK AT ROBERT FROST IS MORE COMPLEX THAN PREVIOUS BIOGRAPHIES.(Lifestyle)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- April 3, 1999
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Why yet another biography of Robert Frost (1874-1963), when more than a dozen lives of the poet have already been published, among them Lawrance Thompson's three-volume official biography, ``Robert Frost: The Early Years, 1874-1915,'' ``Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915-1938'' and ``Robert Frost: The Later Years, 1938-1963,'' the latter written with R.H. Winnick?
Jay Parini - a poet, novelist and biographer who teaches English at Middlebury College - addresses this question in an afterword, ``Frost and His Biographers,'' to his graceful ``Robert Frost: A Life.'' Here he argues that to date Frost biographies have been defined by three phases. The first ...