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...Florida where he has a small house in Coral Gables, summers at his Vermont farm, which he shares with the Morrison family: Harvard Lecturer (and poet) Theodore Morrison* and his wife Kathleen. Both at Cambridge and Ripton, "K," serves as a sort of combined secretary, manager and friend, handles Frost's correspondence, types his poems, fends off unwanted callers, fusses over his diet and clothes, tries to see that he gets to bed at a reasonable hour...
...summer long, there is a steady stream of friends visiting at the farm. Frost receives them slumped in the ancient Morris chair he bought 40 years ago, talking in his twanging New England voice, a rascally twinkle in his blue eyes. When the Morrisons are there, Frost takes his meals with them at the main house 50 yards down the hill from his cabin...
Cluttered Attic. A late riser, Frost eats a breakfast of watered milk and a raw egg flavored with lemon. Afternoons, he walks the hills or potters around the farm (he is helping his tenant farmer, Stafford Dragon, build an extra room on the main house). Last week he was spending his evenings reading Catullus (in Latin), dipping into travel books ("they keep your imagination kind of stretched wide") or writing in his slow longhand. Frost writes nearly all his poems straight through at a sitting. "A poem can't be worried into existence," he says...
...poems he has been writing in the last few years are the gleanings of a lifetime-cluttered attic. Where once he had magical insights, he is content now to write mostly shrewd and quizzical "editorials." A Masque of Reason (1945) and A Masque of Mercy (1947) Frost calls "kind of religious quips." Nobody but Frost would call these sardonic and compassionate verse-dramas quips...
This week, Robert Frost will head west for Kenyon College, in Gambier, Ohio, where poets, scholars and editors will gather to do him honor. They will swap ideas, discuss "The Poet and Reality," see a production of A Masque of Mercy, and pay their respects to their old friend...