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Title: A balanced, judicious, entertaining biography
Review: Jeffrey Meyers' ROBERT FROST: A BIOGRAPHY is a masterful account of Frost's lives, personal and literary. Cast in the long shadow of Lawrance Thompson's three-volume diatribe against the modern titan, Meyers' work is balanced, judicious, and highly entertaining. It does not deny Frost's tragic shortcomings, but it also lauds his compelling and unique body of work and restores his eminence as a 20th- century virtuoso, all the while exposing the contradictions in the personal and moral life of the intellectual. The work is full of wonderful anecdotes and has unparalleled direct accounts of Frost's early courtship of his wife, Elinor, and of his later complicated relationship with his mistress, Kay Morrison. Meyers is especially adept at providing insight into the biographical events that shaped individual poems. This is the most honest biography of Frost yet written.
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