| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xii, 514 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [485]-487) and index. |
| Contents |
Once by the Pacific : 1874-1885 -- Home is where they have to take you in : 1886-1892 -- Masks of gloom : 1893-1895 -- Trials by existence : 1896-1900 -- Farm in Derry : 1901-1905 -- Ache of memory : Pinkerton and Plymouth : 1906-1911 -- Place apart : 1912-1913 -- In a yellow wood : 1914-1915 -- Home again : 1915-1916 -- Person of good aspirations : 1917-1919 -- Living in Vermont : 1920-1922 -- Mind skating circles : 1923-1925 -- Taken and tossed : 1926-1927 -- Original response : 1928-1930 -- Building soil : 1931-1934 -- His own strategic retreat : 1935-1938 -- Depths below depths : 1939-1940 -- Corridors of woe : 1941-1944 -- Height of the adventure : 1945-1947 -- Great enterprise of life : 1948-1953 -- Winter owl : 1954-1959 -- Ages and ages hence : 1960-1963. |
| Summary |
A biography of Robert Frost, the poet who won four Pulitzer prizes before dying in 1963. The book describes his early life--he wanted to be a baseball player--his farming in New England, its influence on his poetry, and his many bouts with depression and self-doubt. |
| Subject |
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963.
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Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0805031812 (hc. : alk. paper) |
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