The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 1: 1886 – 1921 (Lives and Letters): 1886

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The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 1: 1886 – 1921 (Lives and Letters): 1886–1920 annotated edition

Author(s): Robert Frost (Author), Donald Sheehy (Author), Mark Richardson (Author), Robert Faggen (Author)

Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Date: 14 Mar. 2014
Edition: annotated edition
Language: English
Print length: 848 pages
ISBN-10: 9780674057609
ISBN-13: 9780674057609

Book Description

One of the acknowledged giants of twentieth-century American literature, Robert Frost was a public figure much celebrated in his day. Although his poetry reached a wide audience, the private Frost–pensive, mercurial, and often very funny–remains less appreciated. Following upon the publication of Frost’s notebooks and collected prose, “The Letters of Robert Frost” is the first major edition of the poet’s written correspondence. The hundreds of previously unpublished letters in these annotated volumes deepen our understanding and appreciation of this most complex and subtle of verbal artists. Volume One traverses the years of Frost’s earliest poems to the acclaimed collections “North of Boston “and “Mountain Interval “that cemented his reputation as one of the leading lights of his era. The drama of his personal life–as well as the growth of the audacious mind that produced his poetry–unfolds before us in Frost’s day-to-day missives. These rhetorical performances are at once revealing and tantalizingly evasive about relationships with family and close friends, including the poet Edward Thomas. We listen in as Frost defines himself against contemporaries Ezra Pound and William Butler Yeats, and we witness the evolution of his thoughts about prosody, sound, style, and other aspects of poetic craft. In its literary interest and sheer display of personality, Frost’s correspondence is on a par with the letters of Emily Dickinson, Robert Lowell, and Samuel Beckett. “The Letters of Robert Frost” holds hours of pleasurable reading for lovers of Frost and modern American poetry.

Editorial Reviews

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After decades in which Robert Frost’s letters were unavailable, we are given the first of several volumes, taking him up through 1920. Especially valuable are letters from 1913-14 in which Frost staked out his poetic aims and principles. The editorial job is painstakingly, indeed brilliantly, performed. –William H. Pritchard, Amherst College

So, I keep on having to rediscover Frost, but I am delighted each time I do. Whatever else they reveal abut him – perhaps he stole cars – the next two volumes of letters are bound to go on showing that he was as thoughtful and hard-working as an artist can get: further evidence that the best of modernism is a way for the classical to keep going.” –Clive James, Prospect, 1 February 2014

“The book has been edited by Donald Sheehy, Mark Richardson and Robert Faggen with continuous tact and sensitivity to the likely demands of a literate reader; there are enough notes and just enough (they never strike one as intrusions pretending to be elucidations). A good index and a biographical glossary complete the authority of a book that has been printed with the care and elegance it deserves.” –Times Literary Supplement

The Letters of Robert Frost: Volume I, 1886 1920 is edited by Donald Sheehy, Mark Richardson and, notably, Robert Faggen, the main force behind an ambitious enterprise to contextualize one of the greatest poets of the twentieth or any century. Every page gives up a wealth of information. –A TLS Book of the year 2014

About the Author

Donald Sheehy is Professor Emeritus of English and Philosophy at Pennsylvania Western University.

Mark Richardson is Professor of English at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan.

Robert Faggen is Barton Evans and H. Andrea Neves Professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College.

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The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 1: 1886 – 1921 (Lives and Letters): 1886–1920 annotated edition

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