"Run, you pigeons! It's Robert Frost!"

January 16, 2007 5:52 PM

Dark Darker Darkest is an essay in this week's New Republic by Christopher Benfey on the newly published Notebooks of Robert Frost (here's a more conventional book review by Mark Ford in The Financial Times). Glyn Maxwell, a couple of years ago in the same publication, wrote a short article, Beautiful as He Did It, about Edward Thomas and his relationship with Frost. Should you want more direct contact with the famous poet, you can read Richard Poirier's 1960 interview with Frost that appeared in The Paris Review (pdf) or listen to him recite a few of his better known poems.
posted by Kattullus (6 comments total)

Excellent. Thanks. Hadn't heard about the Notebooks book.
posted by dobbs at 5:58 PM on January 16, 2007

Awesome title.
posted by zabuni at 6:48 PM on January 16, 2007

wow, this is a remarkable post. thanks.
posted by shmegegge at 9:12 PM on January 16, 2007

Great post, and it whets my appetite for the Library of America Frost collection that's heading my way (and a hat tip to goethean for letting me know about it).
posted by languagehat at 5:15 AM on January 17, 2007

So, when will someone be working Beloved Sanspoof into a post title?
posted by JHarris at 7:36 AM on January 17, 2007

My favorite poet. Thank you for the wonderful post.

I, too, was unaware of the notebooks, and will cherish the readings.

However, .au, .gsm or .ra files? They forgot the Speex codec.
posted by dozo at 3:14 PM on January 18, 2007