One of the Dangerous Trades: Essays on the Work and Workings of PoetryAn examination of the poet's place in society as seen by a poet who is also a publisher. |
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... Robert Frost I can remember when Robert Frost came to visit my parents in Coral Gables , Florida . I was six years old and he was sixty . What impressed me most was his ankle - high black leather shoes . The date was early 1935. Such ...
... Robert Frost I can remember when Robert Frost came to visit my parents in Coral Gables , Florida . I was six years old and he was sixty . What impressed me most was his ankle - high black leather shoes . The date was early 1935. Such ...
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... Frost in fact played the escape artist over and over again : from Dartmouth and Harvard , from Amherst and Michigan ... Robert Frost in Russia , Frost ran away to the Soviet Union on an intercultural ex- change and in a melodramatic ...
... Frost in fact played the escape artist over and over again : from Dartmouth and Harvard , from Amherst and Michigan ... Robert Frost in Russia , Frost ran away to the Soviet Union on an intercultural ex- change and in a melodramatic ...
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Essays on the Work and Workings of Poetry Peter Davison. Robert Frost : " I Want People to Understand Me - But I Want Them to Understand Me Wrong . " It's almost impossible now to hear an opinion of Robert Frost that doesn't begin by ...
Essays on the Work and Workings of Poetry Peter Davison. Robert Frost : " I Want People to Understand Me - But I Want Them to Understand Me Wrong . " It's almost impossible now to hear an opinion of Robert Frost that doesn't begin by ...
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One of the Dangerous Trades | 3 |
The Great Predicament of Poetry | 11 |
The Refuge of the Present Tense | 17 |
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