Robert Frost is one of the most widely read well loved and misunderstoodof modern writers. In his day he was also an inveterate notetaker penningthousands of in... » 

Robert Frost is one of the most widely read well loved and misunderstoodof modern writers. In his day he was also an inveterate notetaker penningthousands of intense aphoristic thoughts observations and meditations insmall pocket pads and school theme books throughout his life. These notebookstranscribed and presented here in their entirety for the first time offerunprecedented insight into Frosts complex and often highly contradictorythinking about poetics politics education psychology science and religionhis attitude toward Marxism the New Deal World Waras well as Yeats PoundSantayana and William James. Covering a period from the late 1890s to early1960s the notebooks reveal the full range of the mind of one of Americasgreatest poets. Their depth and complexity convey the restless and probingquality of his thought and show how the unruliness of chaotic modernity wasalways just beneath his appearance of supreme poetic control. Edited bypreeminent Frost scholar Robert Faggen and annotated to help readers with thepoets more elusive references the notebooks are also thoroughly crossreferenced marking thematic connections within these and Frosts otherwritings including his poetry letters and other prose. This is a major newaddition to the canon of Robert Frosts writings. «