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xvi, 392 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Offers detailed accounts of sixty-five poems that span Frost's writing career and assesses the particular nature of the poet's style, discussing how it changes over time and relates to the works of contemporary poets and movements.
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volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Pensive, mercurial, and often funny, the private Robert Frost remains less appreciated than the public poet. The Letters of Robert Frost, the first major edition of the correspondence of this complex and subtle verbal artist, includes hundreds of unpublished letters whose literary interest is on a par with Dickinson, Lowell, and Beckett.
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xvi, 424 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This riveting biography, by a master of the genre, gives a radically new interpretation of Robert Frost both as man and poet. Meyers explores Frost's troubled relations with his wife, Elinor, and his Job-like family life. Two of his children died in infancy, one died in childbirth, one became insane, and one killed himself. These tragedies were reflected in his terrifying art. The Frost that emerges from this biography is neither the hayseed sage...
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xvi, 246 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Robert Frost observed in his wife, Elinor, a desire to live 'a life that goes rather poetically.' The same could be said of many members of the Frost family, over several generations. In [this book], Frost's granddaughter, Lesley Lee Francis, combines ... personal memories and ... research to create a portrait of Frost and the women, including herself, whose lives he touched"--Dust jacket flap.
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