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Elected Friends: Robert Frost & Edward Thomas To One Another
From: Poetry
Date: 20040901
Author:Anonymous
Elected Friends: Robert Frost & Edward Thomas To One Another. Ed. by Matthew Spencer. Handsel Books. $24.00.
This book is beautifully produced and very well-edited, with an excellent foreword by Michael Hofmann and an afterword by Christopher Ricks. At its heart, though, it's weirdly dull. Elected Friends is made up of letters exchanged between Frost and Thomas after a year of close friendship in England. Both men were in their mid- to late-thirties when they met, and neither had any sort of palpable accomplishment behind him. The letters give some sense of how galvanizing and sustaining ...
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