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Frost in a Clear Lens.(Review)
National Review
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May 3, 1999|
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Robert Frost: A Life, by Jay Parini (Holt, 528 pp., $35)
As we end the 20th century a rough consensus has emerged. The preeminent poets writing in English have been Yeats, Eliot, and Frost. A bit lower many would place Stevens, Pound, and maybe Auden. I note that Americans score well; also that, taken as a whole, this has been a glorious century for poetry in English, perhaps the best since the 17th.
Parini's fine new biography of Frost enters a strange situation. We have the three-volume biography (1966-76) of Lawrance Thompson and R. H. Winnick. That ...
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