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Article: Robert Frost's "On Talk of Peace at This Time": a third version of an uncollected manuscript poem.
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- January 1, 1994
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In a letter to Amy Lowell on October 22, 1917, Robert Frost explained that there was very little in his poetry about war.
Would it amuse you to learn that ["]Range Finding["] belongs to a set of war
poems I wrote in time of profound peace (crica 1902)? Most of them have
gone the way of waste paper. Range Finding was only saved from going the
same way by Edward Thomas who liked it and asked about it now and then
and very particularly once in a letter last Spring--he thought it so good a
description of No Man's Land. So you see my poems about this war narrow