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Poetry

Petrushka

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5. I "blame" Ezra Pound for introducing Robert Frost's work to the world . . .

Reply to ananda (Reply #4)

Tue Aug 4, 2015, 03:08 PM

Aug 2015

. . . and I can't fault Ol Ez for doing that. Frost's mastery of the pentameter line and blank verse is on a par with Shakespeare's, in my opinion.

When it comes to your actually blaming the occult for what's happened to poetry, that's a subject for another day---and one worth taking into consideration, whether or not one agrees.

All best!

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