Volume 43, Number 13 · August 8, 1996
Great Old Modern
By Brad Leithauser
Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays
edited by Richard Poirier, edited by Mark Richardson
Library of America, 1036 pp., $35.00
As his book titles suggest, Robert Frost's poems abound in geological and geographical imagery—there's North of Boston, Mountain Interval, New Hampshire, West-Running Brook, A Witness Tree (one whose carved trunk records the boundaries of newly settled land), A Further Range. The connection between places and people—between the exterior and the interior landscape—is always close at hand in Frost's work, a point illustrated with dexterous affection in his dedication of A Further Range to his wife, Elinor:
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