[New-Poetry] Re: Frost on the edge

[David Graham]

On Feb 4, 2007, at 11:58 AM, Bob Grumman wrote:

> Frost was a great poet, and I've always loved his prose about  
> poetry.  But he was not innovative--because he invented no new way  
> of doing anything in poetry, just used conventional ways of doing  
> poetry better than just about anyone else.
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We've been around this track before.  You define "innovative" in such  
a way as to restrict it far more than I would do.  Our argument is  
over before it starts.  In any case, like David Orr I tend to be far  
more interested in looking at ways in which Frost is a great poet  
than in choosing up sides in this old and pointless battle.


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