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...good a poet is Robert Frost? It is the kind of uncatchable, dragonfly question he might put out himself. And it is best answered in his own deceptively homely terms: he is good enough to have lodged a few pebbles where they'll be hard to dislodge...
...lyrical best, Frost owns a discipline of manner, an immaculate matching of thought and image, a native American voice unsurpassed by any American poet since Walt Whitman. For all his scorn of technical talk, he is as artful a technician as U.S. poetry has known...
Other contemporary poets have had greater influence-T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden. Each, in various measure, has more accurately expressed the fashionable tumults and shoutings of their time. Many of those tumults Frost has simply ignored. But when the time itself has passed into history, it may appear that Robert Frost, quarrying away at the granite of his New England mind, has chosen the more durable material...
...Frost's poetry by copyright permission of Henry Holt...
...years, Frost thought he was born in 1875, but a letter of his father's printed in a Harvard Class of 1872 report sets the date...