Facing the Furies

HERBERT KENNY

This last volume of the biographical trilogy on Robert Frost suffers from the death, while the work was still in progress, of Lawrance Thompson, the poet’s designated biographer. Unlike the first two volumes, therefore, this one bears a dual signature, the second being that of a graduate student of Thompson’s who then became an assistant to him. The volume has also suffered at the hands of reviewers (particularly in the New York Times) who have chosen to review Frost rather than it.

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HERBERT KENNY

This last volume of the biographical trilogy on Robert Frost suffers from the death, while the work was still in progress, of Lawrance Thompson, the poet’s designated biographer. Unlike the first two volumes, therefore, this one bears a dual signature, the second being that of a graduate student of Thompson’s who then became an assistant to him. The volume has also suffered at the hands of reviewers (particularly in the New York Times) who have chosen to review Frost rather than it.