Robert Frost : a life / Jay Parini
- Bib ID:
- 659872
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Parini, Jay
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Henry Holt, 1999
- xii, 514 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0805031812 (alkaline paper) (hc.)
- 0805063412 (paperback)
- Summary:
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This new biography of Robert Frost offers a major reassessment of the life and work of America's premier poet - the only truly "national poet" America has yet produced. Jay Parini began working on this book in 1975, interviewing friends of Frost and working in the poet's archives at Dartmouth, Amherst, and elsewhere. Elegantly, yet simply, he traces the various stages of Frost's colorful life: his boyhood in San Francisco, his young manhood in rural New England, his college days at Dartmouth and Harvard, the years of farming in New Hampshire, the three-year sojourn in England, where he befriended Edward Thomas, Ezra Pound, and other central figures of modern poetry.
Following the astounding rise of the poet's fame in America upon his return from England in 1915, Parini shows how Frost gradually evolved from poet to cultural icon, becoming a friend of presidents, a sage whose pronouncements attracted world press attention. Yet Parini always takes the reader back to the poetry itself, which he reads closely, offering a sensitive road map to Frost's remarkable verbal planet.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Once by the Pacific: 1874-1885
- 2. Home Is Where They Have to Take You In: 1886-1892
- 3. Masks of Gloom: 1893-1895
- 4. Trials by Existence: 1896-1900
- 5. A Farm in Derry: 1901-1905
- 6. The Ache of Memory - Pinkerton and Plymouth: 1906-1911
- 7. A Place Apart: 1912-1913
- 8. In a Yellow Wood: 1914-1915
- 9. Home Again: 1915-1916
- 10. A Person of Good Aspirations: 1917-1919
- 11. Living in Vermont: 1920-1922
- 12. The Mind Skating Circles: 1923-1925
- 13. Taken and Tossed: 1926-1927
- 14. Original Response: 1928-1930
- 15. Building Soil: 1931-1934
- 16. His Own Strategic Retreat: 1935-1938
- 17. Depths Below Depths: 1939-1940
- 18. Corridors of Woe: 1941-1944
- 19. The Height of the Adventure: 1945-1947
- 20. The Great Enterprise of Life: 1948-1953
- 21. The Winter Owl: 1954-1959
- 22. Ages and Ages Hence: 1960-1963
- Afterword: Frost and His Biographers.
- 1. Once by the Pacific: 1874-1885
- 2. Home Is Where They Have to Take You In: 1886-1892
- 3. Masks of Gloom: 1893-1895
- 4. Trials by Existence: 1896-1900
- 5. A Farm in Derry: 1901-1905
- 6. The Ache of Memory - Pinkerton and Plymouth: 1906-1911
- 7. A Place Apart: 1912-1913
- 8. In a Yellow Wood: 1914-1915
- 9. Home Again: 1915-1916
- 10. A Person of Good Aspirations: 1917-1919
- 11. Living in Vermont: 1920-1922
- 12. The Mind Skating Circles: 1923-1925
- 13. Taken and Tossed: 1926-1927
- 14. Original Response: 1928-1930
- 15. Building Soil: 1931-1934
- 16. His Own Strategic Retreat: 1935-1938
- 17. Depths Below Depths: 1939-1940
- 18. Corridors of Woe: 1941-1944
- 19. The Height of the Adventure: 1945-1947
- 20. The Great Enterprise of Life: 1948-1953
- 21. The Winter Owl: 1954-1959
- 22. Ages and Ages Hence: 1960-1963
- Afterword: Frost and His Biographers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [485]-487) and index.
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