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A Poet's Will
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19960811
Author:Sunil Iyengar
ROBERT FROST
A Biography
By Jeffrey Meyers
Houghton Mifflin. 424 pp. $30
A voice said, Look me in the stars
And tell me truly, men of earth,
If all the soul-and-body scars
Were not too much to pay for
birth.
-- Robert Frost, "A Question"
THE COVER photograph of Jeffrey Meyers's 12th biography, Robert Frost, finds the poet "midway through life's journey," sometime in the 1920s. Frost's pose is wistful, soft and subdued. Having achieved publication at 40, he had reason to relax. On the circuit and courted by several universities, Frost was in demand. His fourth book, New Hampshire ...
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