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Robert Frost: A Life.(Review)

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From: Insight on the News
Date: 19990524
Author:Driscoll, Kevin

Robert Frost is the most famous, and perhaps most talented, American poet of the 20th century. A new biography by fellow poet Jay Parini explains the allure of his life and work.

It was Stewart Udall, the congressman from Arizona and eventual secretary of the interior, who first suggested that Robert Frost read a poem at the presidential inauguration of John F. Kennedy in 1961. Frost was 85 at the time and, as Jay Parini makes clear in Robert Frost: A Life (Henry Holt, 514 pp), the reasons for Udalls suggestion were manifest: "The appeal of Frost seemed to go beyond poetry ...

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