Robert Frost: A Life

Robert Frost: A Life by Parini, Jay. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780805031812.

This fascinating reassessment of Americas 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 poets 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 Frosts colorful life, Parini also sensitively explores the poets 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 Frosts remarkable world.