Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wylie found Frost "truly fascinating, and the most charming conversationalist-I should say monologuist-I have ever known." Later, TIME staff writer A. T. Baker joined the two for an evening's conversation during which Frost and Baker spent much of the time quoting other men's poetry to each other. As a parting gift to Wylie and Baker, Frost gave them the signed typescript of his new, unpublished, 14-page poem. Its title: How, Hard It Is To Keep From Being King When It's In You And In The Situation...
...sumac, crept inward from branch tips, inched downward into the valley where the river brawls through the gorge. From a slab-wood cabin with its back set firmly against the valley's shoulder, cooking his own meals and dependent on no man, 76-year-old Poet Robert Frost last week faced the world. It is the vantage point he likes best...
...back-country road, trudging along with an oddly catlike grace, wearing an old blue denim jacket and blue sneakers. They recognize the heavy, big-knuckled hand shaped to axhelve and pitchfork, the heavy shoulders hunched to the swing of a scythe. Vermonters find nothing outlandish or alarming about Robert Frost...
...like what they understand. They find his dialogue poems as invigorating as a good argument, his lyrics as engaging, sometimes as magical, as Mother Goose. In a literary age so preoccupied with self-expression that it sometimes seems intent on making the reader feel stupid, Robert Frost has won him by treating him as an equal...
...short, Robert Frost is a popular poet. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry four times, has been showered with degrees and honors. In the U.S. his books have sold about 375,000 copies in all editions. Does that mean that he must be damned as a second-rate one? Says Frost philosophically: "Who knows what will survive? The limit of my ambition is to lodge a few pebbles where they will be hard...