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ARTFUL REVENGE ONE OF ROBERT FROST'S MOST CURIOUS CREATIONS WAS HIS OWN STUBBORNLY CONTRADICTORY PERSONA - PURPOSELY FASHIONED TO CONFOUND CRITICS AND SCHOLARS.

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20020526
Author:STEPHEN S. HOWIE

IN THE FALL OF1894, a 20-year-old Robert Frost, jilted by the woman who would later be his wife, ripped up his first, self- published book of poems that he had printed and bound to win her love. He ventured south from Lawrence, Massachusetts, on trains and steamers and then on foot into the Dismal Swamp, a 20-mile expanse of bogs, quicksand, and poisonous snakes along the Virginia-North Carolina border. He was clad in street clothes and city shoes, and walked 10 miles through the briars and vines as day turned to night. The reckless adventure would become symbolic of the forlorn journeys ...

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