Word: frosts
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SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST edited by Lawrance Thompson. 645 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
Having attained the seventh age of the public person, grand old manhood, Robert Frost spent a large part of his last two decades receiving the accolades of national affection. But there is a perverse quality of dismissal about a nation's affection, as if the recipient were being asked while still alive to mount a bronze horse, assume a statuary stare, and to refrain from doing anything that would require the recutting of the inscription on his pedestal...
...Frost encouraged the display, partly because of a lifelong hunger for public regard, and partly, it is reasonable to suppose, with privacy aforethought. The more the honors are heaped, the less chance of too-personal prying into the man at the heap's bottom. "I have written," he once confided to his friend John Bartlett, "to keep the overcurious out of the secret places of my mind, both in my verse and in my letters...
Money & Flattery. Until an adequate biography of Frost is published-Editor Lawrance Thompson's is due next year-the best indication of where Frost's secret places may lie is offered in his letters. This collection begins with a puppy-love note, written in 1887, when he was twelve, and ends with dinner invitations from Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. It would not be fair to say that what lies between shows the shape of his life. There are only occasional hints, for instance, to suggest the depth and quality of his relationship with his wife Elinor, presumably because...
...great many of the letters from Frost's youth and middle years asked- politely and entertainingly, but with insistence-for money, or flattered editors so that money could be asked for in the future. He coached friendly critics, and was shameless in calling attention to the notices they produced. An unfriendly and unjust reading of his correspondence could have it that Frost spent the first two-thirds of his life hawking his product and the last third complacently enjoying the proceeds...