Robert Frost The Aim Was Song Author:Jean Gould The writing of Jean Gould's book was begun about a year before Robert Frost's death. In front of the wood fire in his little cottage high on a Vermont hillside, she was fortunate in obtaining fresh material about his outlook on life directly from the poet. — Her book contains all the essential facts of the poet's life: his childhood in San Franci... more »sco; his moving east after his father's death; his failure to subject his unruly spirit to conventional education in two colleges; his romance and marriage; his slowly evolving fame. Above all, this book concerns itself with the unconquerable nature of the poet, determined to be faithful to the urge to reach his goal of "song."« less