This book elegantly pairs Frost's poems with corresponding photos. Often the poems accompany a two page photo spread. The photography is good, although the image quality on paper isn't fabulous. It's nice to read his poems and have images of New England bring them to life.

Robert Frost has the ability to capture the deepness of simple things. We tend to overlook the profoundness of life's little nuggets. The combination of King's simple photos of country life in New England adds visual images to the mental ones painted by Frost. A beautiful book!

Disappointly poorly done. Statements made without support, poorly written, contributes little if anything new to one's understanding of the man or his work.

This is a solid, workmanlike biography of Robert Frost. It will probably appeal more to the reader who wants to know about Frost the man as opposed to the reader who is more interested in the poetry. There are some excerpts from the poetry but not a lot, and very little analysis. Probably the best thing about the book is the balanced attitude Mr. Meyers takes towards the poet. The author doesn't gloss over Frost's faults, but doesn't demonize him either. Yes, Frost had a tremendous ego. (Show me an artistic person that doesn't!) He loved to receive praise. He "collected" honorary degrees. Towards the end of his life he made it clear that he wanted degrees from Oxford and Cambridge, so that he could equal the achievement of Longfellow and James Russell Lowell. He was famous enough and knew enough of the "right" people that he was able to get what he wanted. He was extremely competitive and made nasty comments about other poets who he perceived to be a "threat", both in terms of popularity and talent- such as Carl Sandburg, Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot. Frost made fun of Sandburg's self-created "folksy" persona- playing his "geetar" and combing his long, white hair over his eyes. But Mr. Meyers makes clear that Frost wasn't alone in his competitiveness. Though Sandburg was apparently a very nice fellow, Eliot and Pound had plenty of nasty things to say about Frost and other poets as well. Where Mr. Meyers is most sympathetic is in discussing Frost's relationship with his family. In the past, Frost has been portrayed as a selfish "monster" who ignored his wife and children and caused their unhappiness, mental problems and, in the case of Frost's son Carol, a suicide. It seems clear that mental illness ran in Frost's family, going back at least to his father and mother. Frost heard "voices" in his youth and they came back in times of severe stress, such as right after Frost's wife Elinor died in 1938. Frost had an unnatural fear of the dark and apparently suffered from some degree of depression. He managed to overcome these problems and to live a long, creative life. He did the best he could to be a good husband and father. He remained faithful to his wife despite the temptation of female students "throwing" themselves at him. (After all, even in middle-age, he was a handsome man, as well as being charismatic, artistic and famous.) He tried to be emotionally present for his children, giving advice (if also at times trying to control them) and he was always generous with money. Again, this book is strong on Frost's personal life. But it is a bit weak on analyzing the poetry and it covers Frost's teaching career in too cursory a manner, "flitting" about from place to place too quickly. Some of this is inherent in Mr. Meyers' decision to write a relatively brief biography. He tries to cover in 350 pages the personal life and career of a man who lived to be 88 years old, and who remained creative for approximately 70 of those years. Mr. Meyers had to make choices about what to include and what to leave out and other things had to be compressed. Unfortunately, it shows. This book is not the definitive biography of Frost. That remains to be written. But it is a good introduction, a book that succeeds in being fair-minded and will leave you wanting to know more about the man and the poetry.

In spite of the barrier of silence choking it, the vitality of American identity and consciousness continues to survive, thanks to clues, planted in Robert Frost: a biography, written by Jeffrey Meyers. The first major hint that America is alive and struggling for breath comes with the affirmation of the importance of Frost's identity as a native San Franciscan; the second is the remembrance of Lionel Trilling's valiant attempt in 1985 to put into sharper focus the image of Frost's work and his reputation. Nevertheless, author Meyers does not develop the latter point in which Trilling stated that Frost's reputation had been created over a misinterpretation of his work. In fact Trilling's was a major effort to raze the barrier of silence, to state and restate lines of research in the development and study of literature in America from the East Coast to the West, from Columbia University to the University of California at Berkeley (Lizarraga 1999a y b). In response to criticism both professional and personal, published in major literary reviews of the East Coast, Trilling made a valiant attempt to defend the remarks made on that historical evening, recording in permanent form by way of the Partisan Review both his speech and his will to defend it. Although Meyers describes the reaction of Frost on that evening as one of surprise, the poet was not a stranger to the effects of the barrier of silence. A letter written in 1929 by Frost to Lincoln MacVeagh (Thompson 1964:362), as well as subsequent events in the 1930's, not only establish Frost's initial attitude toward 'the silencers', but also serves as a vindication of Trilling. The letter reads as follows "The first poem I ever wrote (La Noche Triste) was on the Maya-Toltec-Aztec civilization and there is where my heart still is, while outwardly i profess an interest more or less perfunctory in new England. Never mind, I'm lucky to be allowed to write poetry on anything at all". Actually, this was but a prelude to continuing manifestations of the relation of poetry, politics, religion and repression, experienced in 1936, when Frost achieved the publication of a number of works. Key among them is the booklet titled A Further Range, which includes the poems "The Vindictives 'The Andes"and "The Bearer of Evil Tidings 'The Himalayas"and for which he won the Pulitzer Prize, and the booklet entitled from Snow to Snow, which, apparently, was the initial publication of the poem "The Road Not Taken"and which by the end of the Thirties as an integral text had been banished to oblivion by Frost himself. It is here that a concept of AngloAmerican literature, which rejects the primacy of geography in the formation of consciousness, begins to be formulated; and, time is divorced from space. This then created a dichotomy in the Americas, centering in the north of america concepts of Angloamerican and Western culture, grounded in language only, as opposed to South and/or Latin American literature in which geographical space and language serve as the cornerstones (Falcon, Huayanca, Lizarraga 1999). If we are to formulate a viable concept of an integrated American culture and education, today we must face this contradiction , a continuing source of repression and chaos. Focusing on this point, the alert reader becomes aware that the true measure of Robert Frost is to be taken by how he dealt with "the silencers" and the consequences this has had, not only on his own life, but also the lives of the rest of us, and not by the shadow of Kay Morrison and her unconventional love life of which Frost was but a part. Channeling a force with the strength to do this is not only to "keep at bey the silencers' but also to demolish the barrier of silence, itself, and"breathe free".

Most of his poems tells his appreciation an experience dealing with nature, for instance, if we observe one of his poem antitled 'stopping by woods on a snowy evening' which basically tends to reveal the nature relation especialy the relation of nature with man itself and in the significance nature will tell what are man's duty living in this world.

Frost always set man in an interesting light to nature. This collection catches the flow of his thoughts clearly. It's a fine collection with a lot to offer. People who are not used to Frost will like this. It will serve as a great introduction to the man. I still have a special place in my heart for 'The Gift Outright'. A good deep read. Educational.

I will avoid a long discussion about stock market efficiency and the efficacy of simple technical analysis, and point you in the direction of Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street. I would suggest further readings if you want to delve into the academic debate behind it.

That being said Prechters's book offers a basic guide into the fundamentals of Eliiot Wave analysis. The principles of the analysis are the belief that there is information to be gained from the price action of stocks (e.g. the implict information of transactions by traders) and that there is a natural flow to these price movements (e.g. stocks don't go up in one direction).

In incorporating price information, the belief is that stocks move in a 5-wave impulsive pattern, which can be either bullish (up) or bearish (down). A 5-wave move is followed by a 3-wave corrective pattern. Larger cycles are basically an aggregation of many 5- and 3-wave patterns. If believed to be true, the practical benefit of understanding waves and cycles is that investors can use this information to identify "where" they are in the cycle of a stock's movement.

The book follows the basics of identifying waves and cycles with some historical and matehmatical background information. This is where Pretcher ties the material in with nature. He believes that waves move in a natural way, which can be described by the Fibonacci sequence and Fibonacci ratios. He advocates using Fibonnaci ratios to forecast the distance (e.g. percent change) and timing of stock price movements. I found this material to be the most informative since it provided background reading on Fibonacci numbers which many technical traders employ in the various tools they use. Now I know what they are talking about.

The rest of the book can be skipped. It is primarily an application of Elliot Wave to various historical contexts. Of course, Pretcher draws on examples that fit nicely with the belief that Elliot Wave has strong predictive abilities. If I recall correctly, the author does close the book with his predictions for the stock market and did correctly predict a long-term bullish Wave 5 coming out of 1982-83.

This book is a must for anyone who believes that there is method to the stock market madness.I am a pharmacist with a scientific and mathematical background.This book explains the stock market in terms of elliott waves,in a similar way that writing is explainned by the alphabet.In essence it explains the relationship between the everyday variations and its relation to what is happenning today.It explains why the DOW is 10750 today and what the most likely scenario is for the next week,month,year.I like to get into it in a complicated way ,but it is not necessary to do so.Learning the alphabet(elliott wave pattern) is enough to allow anyone who can read and write to note whre the market is today and where it is likely to go.While the most obvious use is for stock market investing the education perhaps is even more important. The elliott wave theory says that all moves consist of 8 waves given symbols 1,2,3,4,5,a,b,c,.In a bull market 1,3,5 and b are moves upward and 2 4 a & c are downward moves.Therefore if you can workout which wave your stock is in you can predict its next move.Each 8 wave move is followed by another 8 wave move and every move is interelated.The dow appears to be in the start of wave a with a long and sharp decline in the near future. I have read the book twice and I need to read it again as it makes more sense each time.

then you will understand Elliot Wave principles. The stock markets are said to be nonlinear, dynamic systems. Chaos theory is the mathematics of studying such nonlinear, dynamic systems. Does this mean that chaoticians can predict when stocks will rise and fall? Not quite; however, chaoticians have determined that the market prices are highly random, but with a trend. The stock market is accepted as a self-similar system in the sense that the individual parts are related to the whole. Another self-similar system in the area of mathematics are fractals. Could the stock market be associated with a fractal? Why not? In the market price action, if one looks at the market monthly, weekly, daily, and intra day bar charts, the structure has a similar appearance. However, just like a fractal, the stock market has sensitive dependence on initial conditions. This factor is what makes dynamic market systems so difficult to predict. Because we cannot accurately describe the current situation with the detail necessary, we cannot accurately predict the state of the system at a future time. Stock market success can be predicted by chaoticians. Short-term investing, such as intra day exchanges are a waste of time. Short-term traders will fail over time due to nothing more than the cost of trading. However, over time, long-term price action is not random. Traders can succeed trading from daily or weekly charts if they follow the trends. ***A system can be random in the short-term and deterministic in the long term***.

Manus J. Donahue III
An Introduction to Chaos Theory and Fractal Geometry

Elias Yoseph, Virginia

The multimedia is a nice idea, but it's the poetry that lasts forever. The software is designed to work on Macintosh OS 7.1 or higher, Windows 3.1, or Windows 95. I could not get the software to work on Windows 98 with either the 16-bit QuickTime that comes with the software or the current QuickTime 6.

This is the conclusion of my rhymed review
published in The ROBERT FROST REVIEW,
Fall 1999, pages 75-80.
Copyright (c) 1999 by John Ridland:

Who's this book good for in the end?
Anyone, whether foe or friend
Of Frost, or neutral, to explore
His "world" (and ours)--an open door,
Just as its press release declares,
Which leads up/down Escherian stairs,
For "poetry lovers, scholars, schools,
Libraries", with the learning tools
Laid in our hands, or CD drawer,
(Which true-blue Luddites will deplore
As treacherous tautology)
By our last century's technology--
Or several doors by which to enter
And search for one who, in the center,
Sits, like his "Secret" I once got
In a fortune cookie, I kid you not!
HIS Secret, which this disk will guard,
Is out: he's still America's Bard.

This book, being a memoir, barely begins to tell the story of Robert Frost in Florida. His time in Key West is given extremely short shrift, and no mention at all is made of his important friendship with Florida's own Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The Frosts were treasured dinner guests at Cross Creek before Mrs. Frost's death; Mr. Frost alone visited Marjorie in St. Augustine and Van Hornesville, NY. I don't know how Muir missed this connection except that she was focused on his Miami ties. But in that case, the book should be called "Frost in Miami."

Still, for Frost afficianados, this book is a fix. Contains much personal information about his rotten personality, but most of us have heard that before. If you had written "Stopping by Woods," you would have a right to be a so-and-so sometimes.

Robert Frost: A Pictorial Chronicle is the life story of Robert Frost by Kathleen Morrison. The book talks about Robert Frost, starting from his high school years when his first poem was published. The book tells about a magazine Robert Frost had entered one of his now famous poems and also reveals specific dates Robert Frost moved, as well as the address of the house he purchased. The book releases information concerning people he had to meet up with. For example, Robert Frost meets with John F. Kennedy at his inauguration to recite a poem. It allows you to read individual letters written by Robert Frost as well as his last poem written.
This book is a pictorial chronicle, starting from when Robert Frost's first poem. It takes you on a journey through the life of Robert Frost. I found the book somewhat hard to read do to long sentences and how often the righter switched the subject. This book was well written with interesting information released about Robert Frost and his family, but most of all about Robert Frost's personality and feelings expressed.
The book is hard to follow, but the information is amazing. I would rate this book with three stars. The book is written to allow to visualize the settings which makes it a little easier to read, but the book jumps from subject to subject with no warning is witch is why I give it three stars. I would insist that anyone who is interested in poetry read this book, because you see the day to day life of an outstanding poet.