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Title: Robert Frost: A Life by Jay Parini ISBN: 0805063412 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62
Rating: 5
Summary: I think this is the best of all biographies of Robert Frost.
Comment: Robert Frost has long been my favorite poet. I have read all previous biographies of him and , in my opinion, this book stands head and shoulders above them all. It presents an intensely fair and complete account of the man, his life, and his works. Moreover, it is uniquely compassionate in its evaluation of a flawed genius who "had a lover's quarrel with the world". Frost had talked about the "art of locality" and he exemplified this in his faithful depiction of hardscrabble, ordinary, farming life in rural New England. I feel Frost never hit a false note in his poetry and Jay Parini never hit a false note in his biography. Parini, a writer of excellent fiction, stated in a conclusion at the end of his book that he hated completing his labor of love. I felt the same way in finishing my reading of the book-I was sorry to see it come to an end!
Rating: 5
Summary: A balanced view of a teacher, poet, friend, and family man.
Comment: Jay Parini's well-written and well-organized life of Robert Frost weaves together beautifully the many contradictory Frosts: the spiteful yet respectful colleague, the insensitive yet devoted husband, the domineering yet supportive father, the bullying yet challenging teacher. What we have as a result is a definitive picture of one of our country's greatest poets as a three-dimensional human being, a man of great passions and great talent. As if that weren't good enough, Parini does a magnificent job of showing how many of Frost's best poems fit into periods of his life, how they often reflect his successes and failures, his dreams and his fears. In brief, this is a superlative biography, a must read for anyone curious about the life of this powerful and important poet!
Rating: 5
Summary: Robert Frost: A Man and his Poems
Comment: One of my first memories of Robert Frost is watching him attempting to read a poem he had written for John F. Kennedy's Presidential Inauguration. Struggling with the bright sunlight reflecting off the fresh snow on that crisp winter's day, he abandoned his effort to recite an older poem from memory.
I remember thinking the image of this short, stocky white-haired old man was as close to a wood nymph as I would ever come. Later, I was to learn that Frost lead anything but a simple life. Biographer drawing on this image, often sensationalized the details of his life at the expense of the precious poetry he created.
Jay Parini, the Axinn Professor of English at Middlebury College, does not travel that path. Rather, he provides his readers with insight into how Frost lived day-to-day, poem to poem. He animates Frost's daily struggles with depression, anxiety, self-doubt and confusion. The poet's family life was not happy; he experienced bad luck with his children. Yet, he exhibited tremendous force of will, love for his children and dedication to creating a lasting body of creative work.
Unlike Frost previous biographers, Parini skillfully weaves the details of the poet's life with poetry he created. Frost's desire to "lodge a few poems where they can't be gotten rid of easily" is woven into a picture of an artist attempting to rescue his sanity by creating what he called a "momentary stay against confusion."
For me, reading Frost's poetry is a labor of love; reading Parini's biography is like reliving a best friend's life. This biographical study offers an unusual glimpse into the life, poetry and times of Robert Frost, a man who ranks as one of the world's greatest poets.
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Title: Homage to Robert Frost by Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott ISBN: 0374525242 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems by Robert Frost, Edward C. Lathem ISBN: 0805005021 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: June, 1987 List Price(USD): $37.50 |
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Title: Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing With a New Afterword by Richard Poirier, John Hollander ISBN: 0804717427 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 1990 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Robert Frost: The People, Places, and Stories Behind His New England Poetry by Jay Parini, T. S. Eliot, Lea Bertani Vozar Newman ISBN: 1881535398 Publisher: New England Press Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast by Bill Richardson, Bill Richardson ISBN: 0312171838 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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