Robert Frost (Magill’s Literary Annual 1997)
At a glance:
- Author: Jeffrey Meyers
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1874-1963
- Setting: San Francisco, California; Lawrence, Amherst, and Boston, Massachusetts; Derry, New Hampshire; and England
- Principal Characters: Robert Frost, Elinor Frost, Lesley Frost, Kathleen Morrison, Edward Thomas, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Lawrance Thompson
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Love or romance, Authors or writers, Literature, Marriage, Friendship, Poetry or poets, Adultery, Creative process, Bereavement or grief
- Locales: Boston, MA, England, San Francisco, CA, New Hampshire, Amherst, MA, Lawrence, MA
Robert Frost was singularly unlucky in his choice of biographers. Perhaps no other American writer has been so maligned by his biographer since Rufus Griswold’s malicious slander of Edgar Allan Poe. An early Frost biographer, Robert Newdick, died before he completed his book and the person Frost eventually chose as his “official” biographer, Lawrance Thompson, spent too many years with his subject and came to dislike Frost intensely. As a result, when Thompson’s “definitive” three-volume biography was eventually published, beginning in 1966, three years after Frost’s...
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