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The Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost

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From: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Date: 20020701
Author:Anonymous

The Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost, edited by Robert Faggen.

"To be great," wrote Emerson, "is to be misunderstood." By that standard, Robert Frost must qualify as a truly great poet. For Frost has long been misunderstood, though not because of the difficulty of his writing but because of its apparent simplicity. In a world where Eliot's Wasteland and Pound's Cantos were touchstones of modern poetry, it was easy to dismiss Frost as a superficial poet, a poet "of easy wind and downy flake" merely. But those who have studied Frost with a bit more attention know that this patronizing view ...

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