Memories of The Great and The Good by Alistair Cooke

Author:Alistair Cooke [Cooke, Alistair]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-61145-573-1
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2011-01-18T05:00:00+00:00

It was not until after the Second War, when the flame of the Harriet Monroe revolution had died down, and left so many of its fiery figures mere cinders along the way, that another generation of critics noticed Frost still there, still writing his knotty monosyllables. They began to be excited by the suspicion that here possibly was an American Donne, or a Yankee Theocritus, or—a harder thing to grapple with—Robert Frost, an original. The idea that a huckleberry or a birch tree, or the games a boy played—with that birch tree—who was “too far from town to learn baseball”; the idea that these things could bear the most unsentimental and profound contemplation was at first frightening, until the reader inched his way through the roughness of the underbrush and, like “A Soldier”—in Frost’s poem—discovered that

… the obstacle that checked

and tripped the body, shot the spirit on

Further than target ever showed or shone.

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