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The Man With Two Brains; Whose words these are we thought we knew. But his notebooks show Robert Frost discovering himself.

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From: Newsweek
Date: 20070205
Author:Gates, David

Byline: David Gates

From the 1890s until he died in 1963, Robert Frost wrote down ideas, homemade aphorisms and fragments of poems. As one of his jottings says (God knows in what context), "I reel them off with one brain tied behind me." As you'd expect of a man who fetishized plainness, he used cheap spiral notebooks and flip pads and school composition books. Frost wouldn't mind our looking through them: he often destroyed drafts of his poems, but gave notebooks to friends and institutions. And now that Frost scholar Robert Faggen has published them--700 pages, with all the ...

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