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Left Over from November: In Into My Own: The English Years of Robert Frost, 1912-1915 (Grove, $19.95), John Evangelist Walsh describes the artistic transformation achieved by the New England poet during his two years’ residency in England, between October 1912 and December 1914, and argues that most of the longer poems produced during this period were brought over in draft form from America.

More December Titles: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 (Simon & Schuster, $24.95), by Taylor Branch, is the first installment of a projected two-volume history-biography of the civil-rights leader and his times. Volume One begins with the founding, in 1867, of the First Baptist Church (Colored) in Alabama—the platform from which King began his movement, whose model was Billy Graham’s crusading evangelism— and closes with the assassination of President Kennedy.

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Left Over from November: In Into My Own: The English Years of Robert Frost, 1912-1915 (Grove, $19.95), John Evangelist Walsh describes the artistic transformation achieved by the New England poet during his two years’ residency in England, between October 1912 and December 1914, and argues that most of the longer poems produced during this period were brought over in draft form from America.

More December Titles: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 (Simon & Schuster, $24.95), by Taylor Branch, is the first installment of a projected two-volume history-biography of the civil-rights leader and his times. Volume One begins with the founding, in 1867, of the First Baptist Church (Colored) in Alabama—the platform from which King began his movement, whose model was Billy Graham’s crusading evangelism— and closes with the assassination of President Kennedy.