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During his lifetime, Robert Frost was blessed with public adulation, but his personal life — marked by bouts of depression — was often grim. Though Parini describes Frost's contradictions in painstaking detail, what he does best in this momentous biography is reexamine the poems themselves. In Robert Frost: A Life his analyses reveal a darker and more mysterious side to a body of work too often dismissed as the folksy ruminations of an avuncular naturalist. Frost's poems questioned the cruelty of nature and of God, and through its heartrending re-creation of the poet's life and work, so too does this book. A
Posted Apr 16, 1999
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