Robert Frost : a life
/ Jay Parini
- New York : Henry Holt , 1999
- 514 p. : illus. ; 25 cm
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.
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.