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Article: Robert Frost: A Life.(Review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 1999
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Jay Parini. William Heinemann. [pounds]20 00. 384 pages. ISBN 0-434-00166-X.
In the High Summer of the year declared to have seen the final closing down of the Golden Age of Georgian England - 1914 - there was established in a remote northwestern corner of the Gloucestershire-Herefordshire border what the Reverend J. E. Gethyn-Jones, Vicar of Dymock, distinguished as 'The Muse Colony'. This was a nest of native singing birds, the Dymock Poets - Lascelles Abercrombie, Wilfrid Gibson, Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke, John Drinkwater, and one visiting American migrant songbird, Robert Frost. It is with this alien songster who went on to become the unofficial poet ...