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Essay Archive - The Work of Robert Frost
The Work of Robert Frost
Robert Frost has been discovering America all his life. He has also been
discovering the world; and since he is a really wise poet, the one thing
has been the same thing as the other. He is more than a New England poet:
he is more than an American poet; he is a poet who can be understood
anywhere by readers versed in matters more ancient and universal than the
customs of one country, whatever that country is. Frost's country is the
country of human sense: of experience, of imagination, and of thought. His
poems start at home, as all good poems do; as Homer's did, as Shakespeare's,
as Goethe's, and as Baudelaire's....
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