Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Radical reinvention …

… VQR — Robert Frost and the Modern Narrative. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The narrative mode was not only central to Frost’s imaginative enterprise. It was also the form in which he worked most innovatively, though his remarkable originality has been only partially recognized. To borrow a phrase from his introduction to E. A. Robinson’s King Jasper, Frost had found an “old way to be new” so unobtrusively experimental that most critics and readers missed its sheer originality. 

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