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Robert Frost:

A Life
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13 Reviews
Picador, Mar 15, 2000 - Biography & Autobiography - 514 pages
This fascinating reassessment of America's most popular and famous poet reveals a more complex and enigmatic man than many readers might expect. Jay Parini spent over twenty years interviewing friends of Frost and working in the poet's archives at Dartmouth, Amherst, and elsewhere to produce this definitive and insightful portrait of both the public and private man. While he depicts the various stages of Frost's colorful life, Parini also sensitively explores the poet's psyche, showing how he dealt with adversity, family tragedy, and depression. By taking the reader into the poetry itself, which he reads closely and brilliantly, Parini offers an insightful road map to Frost's remarkable world.

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User Review  - Julie - Goodreads

I've read several Frost biographies and consider this the best one. Parini not only tries to make a corrective and a balanced treatment to Lawrance Thompson's hatchet job bio, but as a poet himself ... Read full review

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User Review  - Philip - Goodreads

"Robert Frost - A Life" is one of the best biographies I have read. It addresses, in a very balanced way, the historical facts in Frost's life, the important occurrences, the strong influences on him ... Read full review

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About the author (2000)

Jay Parini, a poet, novelist, and biographer, is Axinn Professor of English at Middlebury College. His books include The Last Station, John Steinbeck, and Benjamin's Crossing. He lives in Middlebury, Vermont.

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TitleRobert Frost: A Life
A Holt paperback
Owl books
AuthorJay Parini
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherPicador, 2000
ISBN0805063412, 9780805063417
Length514 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / Historical
Biography & Autobiography / Literary
  
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