Robert Frost: A Biography

"...[T]he snide, knowing tone of (Meyers's) earlier books is not in evidence in these pages. Instead of using his subject's art to expose his life, Mr. Meyers uses Frost's life to illuminate his work, while drawing upon his own considerable powers of literary analysis to place Frost's verse in context with the work of other American and English poets. The result is by far Mr. Meyers's most persuasive and thoughtful biography yet. It is Mr. Meyers's contention that the more unpleasant aspects of Frost's character...have been exaggerated, and that his friendships with poets like Robert Lowell and Wallace Stevens have been seriously underplayed....Although [his] overall interpretation of Frost's work remains highly indebted to...earlier critics..., he proves himself a perceptive reader of individual poems....Mr. Meyers has written a judicious book that serves as a welcome antidote..."Jeffrey Meyers is the author of 'Robert Frost: A Biography' with ISBN 9780735101401 and ISBN 073510140X.