Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...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...