The Virginia Quarterly Review, July 1st, 2007
The Notebooks of Robert Frost, edited by Robert Faggen. Harvard, January 2007. $39.95
Perhaps the most delightful aspect of Robert Frost's notebooks is their inscrutability. Transcribed and published for the first time, Frost's jottings posed a wide variety of challenges to editor Robert Faggen: illegibility of handwriting, lack of dates on most entries, other chronology woes (Frost used a number of notebooks at the same time, and so many cover the same period), and a proliferation of allusions to be footnoted. Faggen handles these issues admirably, though often there is little that can be do...
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