[New-Poetry] Re: frost

[JforJames at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/5/2007 6:30:57 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
JforJames at aol.com writes:

The gravitas and bravura got me, and I began to understand that in
his time only Wm. James knew more about the human  pysche.



I know they weren't contemporaneous...James was all Victorian,
Frost overlapped and went into the modern period.
 
"It has sometimes crossed my mind that James wanted to be a poet and an  
artist, and that there lay in him, beneath the ocean of metaphysics, a lost  
Atlantis of fine arts: and that he really hated philosophy and all its works,  and 
pursued them only as Hercules might spin or as a prince in a fairy tale  sorts 
seeds for an evil dragon, or as anyone might patiently do some careful  work 
for which he had no aptitude."
 
John J. Chapman, a friend of William James
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