Comments on: Another great Frost quote

By: The Other Chuck

The Other Chuck — Sat, 15 Oct 2016 05:08:39 +0000

Neo, thanks for the link to your article which explains quite well why they didn’t like Millay. I have a small book collection of her poems inherited from my stepfather whose 1st wife taught at Mills College and was a big fan of her poetry.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Sat, 15 Oct 2016 02:36:39 +0000

The Other Chuck: See this:

Widely regarded as the best poet of the 20th century,Robert Frost won the Pulitzer Prize four times,a record which he shares with Eugene O’Neill who did win the Nobel Prize in 1936.Frost was dismissed because of his “advanced age” in 1961— he was 86 at the time — with the jury deciding the American poet’s years were “a fundamental obstacle, which the committee regretfully found it necessary to state”. Forster wasn’t considered for the Nobel Prize for similar reasons.Over the years,age proved no longer an obstacle as Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize at the age of 87 in 2007.

Seems mighty odd to me. I suspect they also didn't like his politics. Speaking of politics and Millay, see this.

By: The Other Chuck

The Other Chuck — Sat, 15 Oct 2016 00:54:12 +0000

I wonder why Robert Frost never got a Nobel Prize? Surely he deserved it more than Bob Dylan. If politics is a consideration for the committee, then the feminist and one time pacifist, Edna St. Vincent Millay, should be ahead of Dylan. She should have won it if she hadn’t produced anything other than her masterpiece Renascence.
Go figure.

By: snopercod

snopercod — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 19:43:04 +0000

I guess that explains why Muslims hate dogs: They won’t poop facing Mecca.

By: Assistant Village Idiot

Assistant Village Idiot — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 17:00:11 +0000

My grandfather had Frost as an English teacher at Pinkerton Academy c. 1910 and didn’t think he was very good. As Gramps’s mother and sister were both schoolteachers (Londonderry, then Manchester) he possibly knew what he was talking about. The story comes down that Frost’s heart just wasn’t in any of it in those years – not the farm, not the teaching. But that may have only been an interpretation tacked on later.

My son, BTW, must be one of a very few people to have a Robert Frost tattoo: the last lines of “Two Tramps in Mud Time” on the underside of his arm.

By: sdferr

sdferr — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:35:41 +0000

Reading closely (as we may have license to do) will have us alight on Frost's use of the simple English word "make" in speaking of poetry and of poets. That is the deal, after all.