Mark Richardson is Professor of English at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. Donald Sheehy is Professor Emeritus of English and Philosophy at Pennsylvania Western University. Robert Bernard Hass is Professor of English and Philosophy at Pennsylvania Western University. Henry Atmore is Professor of Anglo-American Studies at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies.

Reading The Letters of Robert Frost is as indispensable as reading the poems, for revealed in these pages are the layers of thinking that buttressed the great poet’s talent. What emerges into view is a fuller individual—at times humane, empathetic, avuncular—whose complexity and art were utterly responsive to the political and aesthetic ferment of his times.

Mark Richardson is Professor of English at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. Donald Sheehy is Professor Emeritus of English and Philosophy at Pennsylvania Western University. Robert Bernard Hass is Professor of English and Philosophy at Pennsylvania Western University. Henry Atmore is Professor of Anglo-American Studies at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies.

Reading The Letters of Robert Frost is as indispensable as reading the poems, for revealed in these pages are the layers of thinking that buttressed the great poet’s talent. What emerges into view is a fuller individual—at times humane, empathetic, avuncular—whose complexity and art were utterly responsive to the political and aesthetic ferment of his times.

Mark Richardson is Professor of English at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. Donald Sheehy is Professor Emeritus of English and Philosophy at Pennsylvania Western University. Robert Bernard Hass is Professor of English and Philosophy at Pennsylvania Western University. Henry Atmore is Professor of Anglo-American Studies at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies.

Reading The Letters of Robert Frost is as indispensable as reading the poems, for revealed in these pages are the layers of thinking that buttressed the great poet’s talent. What emerges into view is a fuller individual—at times humane, empathetic, avuncular—whose complexity and art were utterly responsive to the political and aesthetic ferment of his times.