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Article: The poet as conservative.(Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher)(Book review)
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- The American Conservative
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- February 25, 2008
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[Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher, Peter J. Stanlis, ISI, 400 pages]
ALTHOUGH ROBERT FROST was one of the most popular poets of the 20th century, he remains something of an enigma. His official biographer, Lawrance Thompson, plainly disliked him and presented a cruel, lonely, and angry misanthrope. More sympathetic biographies have appeared since this act of "deliberate character assassination," as Stanlis describes it, but the adverse image created by Thompson persists.
Moreover, even Frost's admirers have paid insufficient attention to the philosophy that informed his work. The purpose of this extensive and detailed study is both to rescue the ...