I distrust both the "Robert Frost was a monster!" & "He so wasn't!" phases because each was so very of their time.
@UOJim @henryfarrell That's interesting point. All the other major poets of his era (except maybe Stevens) lacked skeptical faculty.
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@HeerJeet@henryfarrell The other thing in Frost's favor is he kept his racism to himself. He didn't make a *program* of it.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet@henryfarrell Unlike Pound, Eliot, Lovecraft. Frost was a terrible racist, actually, based on his letters, but seems to have+Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet@henryfarrell +had either the decency to be too ashamed to be public about it or at least a sense of discretion. -
@UOJim@henryfarrell Isn't that more just Yankee pragmatism: racism is private hunch but I'm not going to make an program out of it. - Show replies
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