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"The Woods Are Lovely, Dark and Deep"; A novel about Robert Frost finds the man turning to poetry when all else fails.

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20080420
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FALL OF FROST

By Brian Hall

Viking. 340 pp. $25.95 Americans of a certain age might remember Robert Frost as the white-haired codger at JFK's inauguration, a very old New Frontiersman struggling against the January cold and sunlight to read a poem composed for the occasion. Between the glare and the paper-rattling wind, the old man wasn't up to the task. Finally, he folded his pages and extemporized, in an elder's quaver, lines long since committed to memory. All in all, it was an edgy, brave performance.

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