- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Against Aesthetics
- The Unbearable Rightness of Criticism
- Verse Chronicle
- Verse Chronicle
- The Sovereign Ghost of Wallace Stevens
- Eliot in Ink
- Larkin’s Toads
- Verse Chronicle
- Verse Chronicle
- Frost’s Notebooks
- Heaney’s Chain
- Heaney’s Ghosts
- Verse Chronicle
- Verse Chronicle
- World War II Poetry, Reloaded
- Frank O’Hara’s Shopping Bag
- The Village of Louise Glück
- Verse Chronicle
- Verse Chronicle
- Nobody’s Perfect
- Elizabeth Bishop at the New Yorker
- Elizabeth Bishop at Summer Camp
- A Critic’s Notebook
- A List of Don’ts
- Permissions
- Books Under Review
- Index of Authors Reviewed
Frost’s Notebooks
Frost’s Notebooks
A Disaster Revisited
- Chapter:
- (p.114) Frost’s Notebooks
- Source:
- Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure
- Author(s):
William Logan
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
This chapter reviews the editing of The Notebooks of Robert Frost. The New Republic called the book “expertly edited and annotated” while TLS declared the edition a “superb job” and a “labour of love.” However, in 2007, a review in Essays in Criticism accused the book's editor Robert Faggen of committing monstrous errors of transcription, some so embarrassing they made him—or Frost—look like an idiot. A few months later, another review in Parnassus condemned the edition in similar terms. Both pieces claimed that Faggen had offered hardly a page that did not need revision. The errors ran to the thousands, many of them major; and a good proportion gave readings that were nonsensical or preposterous.
Keywords: Robert Frost, poetry, books Notebooks, editing, editors, Robert Faggen, reviews
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- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Against Aesthetics
- The Unbearable Rightness of Criticism
- Verse Chronicle
- Verse Chronicle
- The Sovereign Ghost of Wallace Stevens
- Eliot in Ink
- Larkin’s Toads
- Verse Chronicle
- Verse Chronicle
- Frost’s Notebooks
- Heaney’s Chain
- Heaney’s Ghosts
- Verse Chronicle
- Verse Chronicle
- World War II Poetry, Reloaded
- Frank O’Hara’s Shopping Bag
- The Village of Louise Glück
- Verse Chronicle
- Verse Chronicle
- Nobody’s Perfect
- Elizabeth Bishop at the New Yorker
- Elizabeth Bishop at Summer Camp
- A Critic’s Notebook
- A List of Don’ts
- Permissions
- Books Under Review
- Index of Authors Reviewed