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Poet Robert Frost illuminated by previously unpublished transcript of 1947 Dartmouth lecture

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From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20080224
Author:JOHN CURRAN

Sixty years after New England poet Robert Frost sat down with Dartmouth College students for an off-the-record lecture, the four-time Pulitzer Prize winner's words to them are being published for the first time.

The transcript of the 1947 speech includes a candid question-and-answer session in which the poet suggests one way to take the world is "as a joke, take it humorously."

A transcript of the Oct. 23, 1947, speech _ one of dozens he gave at the college _ will be published later this month in the journal Literary Imagination. Transcripts of other lectures he gave ...

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