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In a message dated 23/10/2006 15:42:42 GMT Standard Time, Chaswe@AOL.COM
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"Scholars get their knowledge with conscientious thoroughness along
projected lines of logic; poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of
books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like
burrs where they walk in the fields." Robert Frost, source unknown.
After hurrying off my posting of 23/10 I felt I really ought to find out
where I'd found this quote, which was easy enough, courtesy the miracle of www.
This introductory essay to Frost's Collected Poems, 1939, seems so entirely
relevant to Pale Fire, I couldn't help feeling that the connection must have
been dealt with in endless depth somewhere. Perhaps a list member could point
me in the right direction ?
There is also a remark in an essay by Rosenbery where he quotes Frost as
saying that he would like to accompany Stopping by Woods with forty pages of
footnotes.
Many apologies for re-treading what I am sure must be well-trod ground.
Charles Harrison Wallace
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writes:
"Scholars get their knowledge with conscientious thoroughness along
projected lines of logic; poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of
books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like
burrs where they walk in the fields." Robert Frost, source unknown.
After hurrying off my posting of 23/10 I felt I really ought to find out
where I'd found this quote, which was easy enough, courtesy the miracle of www.
This introductory essay to Frost's Collected Poems, 1939, seems so entirely
relevant to Pale Fire, I couldn't help feeling that the connection must have
been dealt with in endless depth somewhere. Perhaps a list member could point
me in the right direction ?
There is also a remark in an essay by Rosenbery where he quotes Frost as
saying that he would like to accompany Stopping by Woods with forty pages of
footnotes.
Many apologies for re-treading what I am sure must be well-trod ground.
Charles Harrison Wallace
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