Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MASQUE OF REASON-Robert Frost -Holt...
Shortly after completing this 23-page verse-play, yo-year-old Robert Frost came down with pneumonia, lay wondering if God were punishing him for having written it. Happily-and justly-he recovered. A poet whose work has often been implicit drama, Frost is outright dramatist in A Masque of Reason-and still the New England philosopher asking questions about the nature of things...
Finally rousing himself resolutely, he decided that this lost soul must be educated, and brought back into the fold. He strode to the book-case and pulled down his copy of Jack Frost's "Harvard and Cambridge Sketch Book." After a few moments spent thumbing through the pages, he located the one he sought...
...cape of green and gold, raised his hand over the plough and the kneeling farmers: "God speed the plough: the beam and the mouldboard, the slade and the sidecap, the share and the coulters . . . in fair weather and foul, in success and disappointment, in rain and wind, or in frost and sunshine. God speed the plough...
Frosty Shrouds. Heavy hoarfrost formed each night; the dead did not stink. They froze hard as stone and in the morning they were wrapped in eerie shrouds of frost...