Volume 8, Number 1 · January 26, 1967
Permafrost
By John Thompson
Robert Frost, The Early Years, 1874-1915
by Lawrance Thompson
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 641 pp., $12.50
Selected Prose of Robert Frost
edited by Hyde Cox, edited by Edward Connery Lathem
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 119 pp., $4.50
Interviews with Robert Frost
edited by Edward Connery Lathem
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 295 pp., $7.50
It is certainly odd, the interest we have in the lives of writers. We might suppose that of all people they'd be the last we would need to be curious about—those of them who are real writers, anyway. Because isn't a real writer precisely one whose work is more interesting than he is? Whereas, about failed or unfulfilled or merely casual writers, don't we feel, if we know about them, that they never managed to get their most genuine experience into words, and so as men they may often seem to be better—dceper, more complicated, more necessary—than what they write.
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