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SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST, edited by Lawrance Thompson. This collection shows the poet's wit, shrewdness, ego-and also the courage that saw him through an unrelenting succession of painful family tragedies...
SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST, edited by Lawrance Thompson. This collection shows the poet's wit, shrewdness, ego-and also the courage that saw him through an unrelenting succession of family tragedies...
Omens & Leprechauns. Frost was, of course, an enormously complex man, and the frequent hints he dropped show that he knew it. "You are not going to make the mistake that [Ezra] Pound makes," he warned a publisher, "of assuming that my simplicity is that of the untutored child. I am not undesigning...
...correspondence seldom strayed far from his own predicament, but it was rarely tedious and frequently charming. A meeting with Yeats produced a conflict between Frost's sharp literary sense ("the man of the last 20 years in English poetry") and his common sense. Yeats thought rural matters quaint and believed in leprechauns, and Frost had just spent nine years rooting stones out of his New Hampshire pasture without any converse with the spirit world. There is a wonderful raspberry at Carl Sandburg ("His mandolin pleased some people, his poetry a very few and his infantile talk none...
Combing Wave. The letters offer no single exposition of Frost's theories of writing, but remarks scattered about the volume show something of his approach. He cuts off a good-humored parody of free verse with a perfectly serious joke: "But I desist for want of knowing where to cut my lines unhokuspokusly." He wrote to John Cournos, an unsuccessful novelist: "There are the very regular, pre-established accent and measure of blank verse; and there are the very irregular accent and measure of speaking intonation. I am never more pleased than when I can get these two into...