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Sat 02 Feb 2007The first poet-in-resistanceLiterary Criticism:If every picture tells a story, the woodcut of Robert Frost, with his iconic shock of white hair, against a rural New England scene on my undergraduate paperback Selected Poems suggests only part of a far more complex tale.Like many Americans, the poet laureate of Vermont was born in another state - in California, in 1874, where he lived until age 11. And, unlike most Americans, Frost also lived abroad - in England, from 1912 to 1915, with his wife and children, where he fell in (and out) with Ezra Pound, and met a host of other poets, from TS Eliot to Robert Graves. Nor, for that matter, did every New England poultry farmer study under philosopher George Santayana as a special student at Harvard.