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...night, sitting before the fire in the house they had taken near London, Frost sorted through his poems and arranged some of them into a rough order. He called it A Boy's Will. To his astonishment, the first publisher he tried accepted the book. In literary London, dominated by William Butler Yeats's misty grand manner and Ezra Pound's staccato snatches, Frost's cool voice was a refreshing contrast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pawky Poet | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...take over the newcomer, wined & dined him, tossed him fraternally over his head in a restaurant to demonstrate his prowess at jujitsu, invited him to join the sessions where Pound and other poets like Richard Aldington and Hilda Doolittle rewrote each other's poetry. Pound tried rewriting a Frost verse, announced triumphantly, "Well, I've got you by four syllables. You did it in 53 and I got it down to 49." Frost never even looked. "I'll bet you've spoiled all my nice little rhymes," he snorted, and fled London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pawky Poet | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

Courage, says Frost, is the human vir tue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge, courage to make the best of what is here and not whine for more: "Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better." Frost is something of a philosophical an archist. Liberals and reformers move him to sly mirth. He has no confidence that the earth can be improved through social action or scientific gimcrackery: "One can safely say after from six to thirty thou sand years of experience that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pawky Poet | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...world where much is unknowable, Frost takes refuge in what is knowable, matter-of-fact and practical. "It's knowing what to do with things that counts." One of his favorite books is Robinson Crusoe : "I never tire of being shown how the limited can make snug in the limit less." For himself, Frost asks a wall against intrusion of knowledge, or people, a fence "between too much and me." What is beyond those fences, says Frost, is no man's business. It is "the canyon of Ceasing to Question What Doesn't Concern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pawky Poet | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...Robert Frost has had more need than most men to draw in. Of the tragic deaths and illnesses in his family, the most crushing was the death of his wife in 1938. The shock to Frost was so great that he took to his bed with pneumonia. But he pulled through. Restored to his tough humor, when he underwent an operation for hemorrhoids he issued a bulletin: "I am resting on my laurels after an operation for asteroids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pawky Poet | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

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