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Robert Frost: A Biography
From: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Date: 19961001
Author:Anonymous
Robert Frost: A Biography, by Jeffrey Meyers. Whereas Jeffrey Meyers's last two biographies of Edgar Allan Poe and F. Scott Fitzgerald placed a premium on revealing the weaknesses of their subjects, Meyers's new biography of Robert Frost provides a much more balanced portrait, acknowledging Frost's faults as a person but not letting these drive an interpretation of the poetry. Much of the strength of Meyers's text comes in reaction to Lawrance Thompson's highly critical three-volume treatment of Frost, researched with Frost's cooperation over a 25year period. Thompson, Meyers claims, "knew ...
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