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Undiscovered Robert Frost?  OMFG!

The New York Times is reporting on a never-before-seen Robert Frost poem that will be published next week in  the Virginia Quarterly Review.  Better yet, The Boston Globe is endeavoring to be informative on the subject:

"War Thoughts at Home" first emerged in 1918 when Frost inscribed it in a copy of "North of Boston," his second collection. The poem was not seen again until a graduate student at the University of Virginia, Robert Stilling, recently spotted "War Thoughts" while looking through some Frost papers.

Nice job, graduate student.  Now, if only your dissertation could be titled "Hey, Everybody. Look at This New Robert Frost Poem I Found," you'd be all done.

I'm sorry, that probably sounded more sarcastic than I meant it to be.  Good job, graduate student. 

Posted on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 08:11PM by Registered CommenterMark Leahy, Web Editor in , | Comments2 Comments

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Though an unrepentant Frost junkie and memorizer of many Frost poems, my expectations for this discovery are low. Frost was very publicity-aware and most concerned about the publication and the place in history of his work. If the only extant copy of this poem was scratched inside a volume at UVa, that is probably because Frost failed to destroy that one copy of a piece he never intended to publish.
September 27, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterHarry Forbes
I read an article just today regarding Robert Frost’s Farm and other historic sites which are falling into disrepair. It’s such a shame that no one is taking care of such historical landmarks. I would love to to see the home.
October 1, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterRose

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