Volume 46, Number 16 · October 21, 1999
Frost: The Icon and the Man
By Denis Donoghue
Robert Frost: A Life
by Jay Parini
Henry Holt, 514 pp., $35.00
Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin
by Robert Faggen
University of Michigan Press, 363 pp., $47.50
In the middle of June 1957 Robert Frost arrived in Dublin at the end of a goodwill tour for the State Department: he had been to London, Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester, and Durham. His next assignment was to receive an honorary degree from the National University of Ireland; then he was free to spend four or five days being feted. He was accompanied by Lawrance Thompson, since 1939 his designated biographer. I was teaching in the English Department at University College, Dublin, so I was included in a few social occasions. On one of those I met Thompson and we hit it off pretty well. Over the following days I showed him the literary sights of Dublin, Joyce's tower at Sandycove, the Merrion Square of Wilde and Yeats, the Book of Kells, and the Hill of Howth.
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