Although this book does not attempt to revive the image of Frost as a benign, white-haired sage, it does present him in a strikingly different light than did Lawrance Thompson's controversial three-volume biography.
Jay Parini spent over twenty years interviewing friends of Robert Frost and working in the poet's archives at Dartmouth, Amherst, and elsewhere to produce this definitive and insightful biography of both the public and private man.
In Russian literary marriages, these women did not resent taking a secondary position, although to call their position secondary does not do justice to the vital role these women played in the creation of some of the greatest literary works ...
Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, this second volume of Thompson’s private correspondence is the highly anticipated follow-up to The Proud Highway.
In the tradition of James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time and Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me comes Clifford Thompson's What It Is. Thompson was raised to believe in treating every person of every color as an individual, and he ...
... Lawrence Thompson , Robert Frost : The Early Years , 1874-1915 ( New York , Chicago , San Francisco : Holt , Rinehart and Winston , 1966 ) , 100 434 . Psalm 18 : 6 . 101 Psalm 18:19 . 102 Philippians 4 : 11-12 . 103 John 13 : 7 ; see ...
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... Lawrence Thompson. record at time of railroad grant , it must be shown that entryman was then residing on land or ... in author's name , pp . 262-264 . Approved in Ford v . Blaney Amusement Co. , 148 Fed . 645 , author may reserve ...
Himes brutally rendered racial politics in the best-selling novel If He Hollers Let Him Go, but he became famous for his Harlem detective series, including Cotton Comes to Harlem.
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