Автор:Robert Frost Год: 2009 Издание:The Belknap Press Страниц: 416 ISBN: 9780674034679 During his lifetime, Robert Frost notoriously resisted collecting his prose - going so far as to halt the publication of one prepared compilation and to 'lose' the transcripts of the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures he delivered at Harvard in 1936. But for all his qualms, Frost conceded to his son that 'you can say a lot in prose that verse won't let you say', and that the prose he had written had in fact 'made good competition for [his] verse'. This volume, the first critical edition of Robert Frost's prose, allows readers and scholars to appreciate the great American author's forays beyond poetry, and to discover in the prose that he did make public - in newspapers, magazines, journals, speeches, and books - the wit, force, and grace that made his poetry famous. "The Collected Prose of Robert Frost" offers an extensive and illuminating body of work, ranging from juvenilia - Frost's contributions to his high school Bulletin - to the charming 'chicken stories' he wrote as a young family...
