Frost Less "Executive" than Stevens.

The article focuses on the supposed distaste of modernist American poets Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens for each other's work. It states the quoted taunts that the two poets write about "subjects" and "bric-a-brac," in each other's opinion, and mentions that a number of Frost's notebook entries su...

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Publicado en:Wallace Stevens Journal Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 70 - 74
Autor principal: KOSC, GRZEGORZ
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Johns Hopkins University Press Spring2017
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Sumario:The article focuses on the supposed distaste of modernist American poets Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens for each other's work. It states the quoted taunts that the two poets write about "subjects" and "bric-a-brac," in each other's opinion, and mentions that a number of Frost's notebook entries suggest, the adjective and the noun "executive" had long played a special role in his private and subjective lexicon. It notes that Frost seems to want to resist the executive poetic voice.