Dickstein (English, City U. of New York) compiles 16 essays by writers and scholars of English and literature, from the US and Israel, who examine the poetry of Robert Frost from different critical perspectives, along with a biography, chronology of his life, and works list. New and reprinted essays discuss his critical reputation over the decades, and his work in terms of issues of modernism, his attitudes towards industrial labor, Social Darwinism, nature, science, and from a nationalist perspective, as well as his use of the metaphor of walking for enlightenment, his use of personification, his poems about death, and the background to his book North of Boston. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)