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Article: Jay Parini. Robert Frost: A Life.
- Article from:
- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
- Author:
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London/New York. Pimlico/Henry Holt 2001/1999. xii + 512 pages + 8 plates 15 [pounds sterling]/$35 ISBN 0-7126-6487-4 / 0-80503-181-2
NUMEROUS BIOGRAPHIES OF Robert Frost have appeared in recent years. None of them, however, can rival Jay Parini's admirable, innovative, and very readable work. Robert Frost: A Life transcends the limits of traditional biography and presents a fresh view of the life and works of this classic American poet. Parini comments expertly on the deficiencies as well as the strengths of Frost's previous biographers. He is clearly aware of the hazards of the genre: "One of the commonest mistakes made by biographers involves reading the life ...
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Article: Robert Frost: A Life.(Review)
Contemporary Review;
February 1, 1999 ;
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... ... visiting American migrant songbird, Robert Frost. It is with this alien songster ... Sergeant's endearing profile Robert Frost: The Trial by Existence (1960) and Jean Gould's Robert Frost: The Aim was Song (1964). Then ...
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