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  1. In 1960 no less!

    Can you imagine being his student! That such people used to walk the earth and were available?

    And he was recognized, but today, how would he be marginalized?

    In a 1932 letter to Sydney Cox, Frost explained his conception of poetry: “The objective idea is all I ever cared about. Most of my ideas occur in verse…. To be too subjective with what an artist has managed to make objective is to come on him presumptuously and render ungraceful what he in pain of his life had faith he had made graceful.”

    I suppose, Y, that supports your rather clunky description of an artist?

  2. waitforit:

    The left fought tooth and nail to marginalize Frost ever since the 30s, when they began to pan his poetry. Fortunately, their campaign didn’t really take, although it made inroads.

    He’s still one of the most popular American poets ever, I think, although people are less familiar with his political thought.

  3. Because he read a poem at JFK’s inauguration, Frost has been more or less annexed by the Kennedy industry. They cherrypick his works to find things which support their current obsessions, and consign contradictory material to the memory hole.

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