Donald Sheehy is Professor Emeritus of English and Philosophy at Pennsylvania Western University. Mark Richardson is Professor of English at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. Robert Faggen is Barton Evans and H. Andrea Neves Professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College.

This opening volume of a complete edition of Frost’s letters meanders from a schoolboy’s love notes (‘I have got read a composition after recess and I hate to offaly’) to the dashed valedictions of the poet at 45, fleeing a cushy job at Amherst. Generously annotated, it replaces the selected letters edited by Lawrance Thompson half a century ago… In almost every way, this new edition is a triumph of scholarly care… The notes are as thorough as most readers could wish… For all his private flaws, his tragedies large and small, American literature—and the language itself—owes a profound debt to that dark, demonic, beguiling figure, Robert Frost.

Donald Sheehy is Professor Emeritus of English and Philosophy at Pennsylvania Western University. Mark Richardson is Professor of English at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. Robert Faggen is Barton Evans and H. Andrea Neves Professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College.

This opening volume of a complete edition of Frost’s letters meanders from a schoolboy’s love notes (‘I have got read a composition after recess and I hate to offaly’) to the dashed valedictions of the poet at 45, fleeing a cushy job at Amherst. Generously annotated, it replaces the selected letters edited by Lawrance Thompson half a century ago… In almost every way, this new edition is a triumph of scholarly care… The notes are as thorough as most readers could wish… For all his private flaws, his tragedies large and small, American literature—and the language itself—owes a profound debt to that dark, demonic, beguiling figure, Robert Frost.