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Page viii
... And one critic who gets into the papers pretty often wrote a long criticism of Frost , lately , in which he took pains to show how Robert Frost has never written a line of poetry and how , being the man he is , he never can . viii.
... And one critic who gets into the papers pretty often wrote a long criticism of Frost , lately , in which he took pains to show how Robert Frost has never written a line of poetry and how , being the man he is , he never can . viii.
Page ix
... poetry and other forms of art are able to do with the sorrowful . Poetry shows the creative power of sorrow and ruin , even . It was a homely and honest picture , and yet it had a light on it , like that light on Frost's poems . It ...
... poetry and other forms of art are able to do with the sorrowful . Poetry shows the creative power of sorrow and ruin , even . It was a homely and honest picture , and yet it had a light on it , like that light on Frost's poems . It ...
Page xv
... Poetry brings the past forward , too , and makes it live . We cannot think of the Nativity without thinking of icicles and snow . English poets have brought Christmas north . Lankes has brought Gray's Elegy west and south . It was a ...
... Poetry brings the past forward , too , and makes it live . We cannot think of the Nativity without thinking of icicles and snow . English poets have brought Christmas north . Lankes has brought Gray's Elegy west and south . It was a ...
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