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Robert Frost
Jun. 15th, 2016 09:03 pmRobert Frost travelled to England in hopes of better sparking off his literary career. He first met the poet Frank Flint and then wrote to him, from which we get this excerpt.
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“I was only too childishly happy in being allowed to be present for a moment in company in which I hadn’t to be ashamed of having written verse. Perhaps it will help you understand my state of mind if I tell you that I have lived for the most part in villages where it were better that a millstone were hanged about your neck than that you should own yourself a minor poet.”
-- Robert Frost (1913)
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Flint was able to lead Frost to Ezra Pound, who was also in England, which proves to be the bigger break for Frost. When they first meet, Pound begins to read from Frost’s first collection of poems, “A Boy’s Will”.
Pound said, grinning, “You don’t mind our liking this, do you?” Frost, probably smiling too, said, “Oh, no, go right ahead.”
[Source: Jay Parini, “Robert Frost: A Life”]
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“I was only too childishly happy in being allowed to be present for a moment in company in which I hadn’t to be ashamed of having written verse. Perhaps it will help you understand my state of mind if I tell you that I have lived for the most part in villages where it were better that a millstone were hanged about your neck than that you should own yourself a minor poet.”
-- Robert Frost (1913)
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Flint was able to lead Frost to Ezra Pound, who was also in England, which proves to be the bigger break for Frost. When they first meet, Pound begins to read from Frost’s first collection of poems, “A Boy’s Will”.
Pound said, grinning, “You don’t mind our liking this, do you?” Frost, probably smiling too, said, “Oh, no, go right ahead.”
[Source: Jay Parini, “Robert Frost: A Life”]
