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Article: KINDER, GENTLER TAKE ON `FROST'.(L.A. LIFE)(Review)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- April 28, 1996
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Byline: Michiko Kakutani The New York Times
Title: ``Robert Frost: A Biography''
Author: Jeffrey Meyers
Data: Illustrated. 424 pages, Houghton Mifflin; $30
Our rating: Three Stars
The persona Robert Frost presented to the public was that of an amiable hayseed with a twinkle in his eye: a Yankee nature poet masquerading as a snowy-haired New England farmer.
It was a carefully fashioned image that helped Frost to become one of America's most popular poets, but it was also an image that belied the dark, troubling themes of his work, its preoccupation with loneliness and fear and dispossession.