segunda-feira, 20 de julho de 2009

Robert Frost

As Ian Hamilton explains in his introduction, Robert Frost has been underrated by being over-simplified and over praised. Perceived as a plain-dealing (he was even sent by John F. Kennedy to Russia as an ambassador), kindly, rural man who spent his time mending walls, mowing or apple-picking, he became America's unofficial poet laureate.

(da contracapa de Robert Frost, Selected Poems, Ian Hamilton (ed.), Penguin Books, 1973)

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