Robert Frost’s Tribulation

A pathography is a particular kind of biography. Composed by an angry scold, it’s apt to be short on facts and detail. In place of rigorous documentation, it offers readers a theory about why its subject was capricious, cold-hearted, and depraved. The reasoning of these books is almost always steeped in one of two types of psychology, either the Freudian school or, more rarely, Skinnerian behaviorism.