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New light on frost.(Elected Friends: Robert Frost and Edward Thomas to One Another)(The Poems of Edward Thomas )(Book Review)

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From: National Review
Date: 20040419
Author:Hart, Jeffrey

Elected Friends: Robert Frost and Edward Thomas to One Another, edited by Matthew Spencer (Handsel, 224 pp., $24)

The Poems of Edward Thomas (Handsel, 148 pp., $17)

A MAJOR writer is a world in which discoveries are always to be made. No matter how much we know about Frost, this elegant and concentrated book makes discoveries about him, both biographical and analytical; and the new edition of Edward Thomas's poems will introduce many to the valuable work of Frost's "elected friend." The word "elected" is used in the Calvinist sense also employed by Goethe in Elective ...

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