National Review, April 24th, 1987
Robert Frost Himself
by Stanley Burnshaw(George Braziller, 342 pp., $19.95)
IT SEEMS at least perplexing how thenotion arose that there is little or no relationship between so exalted a sphere as the art of poetry and the Realpolitik of human affairs. There are three aspects of the question that ought to be more fully explored: 1) the relationship of the poet to politics in general; 2) the often very fierce politics involved in the preservation of a poet's reputation, not only among his peers and rivals, but also with the public at large; and 3) the more abstract consideration of the relat...
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