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The poet of terror For 89 years, Robert Frost confronted a painful universe, in life and in verse

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19990328
Author:Henry Taylor

ROBERT FROST A Life By Jay Parini. Holt. 514 pp. Illustrated. $35. Henry Taylor teaches at American University. He received the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1986.

Robert Lee Frost, of whom T. S. Eliot said that his relation to New England was like Dante's to Florence, was born in California (in 1874) and named for Robert E. Lee. He had, of course, no control over his birthplace or his given name, but the contrasts between where he started and where he ended up are faintly suggestive of the turbulent contradictions that made him who he was and made it difficult for any two people to see him ...

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