![]() Parini does not depart radically from the contours of Frost’s life outlined in Laurence Thompson’s groundbreaking, Pulitzer Prize-winning work, including discussions of his alcoholic father, years of uncertainty as a farmer, the poetic breakthrough he achieved in his two years in England, and his sorrow and self-reproach over the death of his wife. ![]() The triumph was all the more striking in that Frost had battled against modernist tendencies in poetry, collectivist tendencies in politics, and his own fears of madness. In old age, Frost was as full of honors as of years, a literary lion who received four Pulitzers and innumerable honorary degrees and recited his poetry at John Kennedy’s inauguration. ![]() ![]() Parini, a poet (House of Days, 1998), biographer (John Steinbeck, 1995), and novelist (Benjamin’s Crossing, 1998), delivers a sensitive life of Frost that highlights the poet’s struggle to find light and stability in an existence filled with darkness and chaos. ![]()
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