First Wednesday: Jay Parini on Robert Frost

Middlebury professor and Frost biographer Jay Parini explores how
Robert Frost became America’s favorite poet by writing accessible poems, creating a uniquely appealing persona, and pioneering the public reading of poems. Recorded 5/4/16.

[@purpledanny1958]

What a compelling and evocative speaker! Jay seems to have committed all of Frost's poetry into his head!

[@thomasdecato9786]

Just finished Parinis book on Frost , loved it best of all

[@MichaelCantrall]

Very entertaining and educational. I'll check Jay Parini's books as well after seeing this excellent presentation.

[@sattarabus]

Jay Parini's book on Robert Frost is one of the most erudite and accessible appraisals of Frost as poet, prankster, and a doughty survivor. His memory often fails him while reciting poems or lines off the top of his head. The line he quotes to illustrate successive feet of spondee--boom, boom boom---does not figure in Tennyson's 'The Charge of the Light Brigade',

[@mariannehusbands6804]

If you knew you could not have said it was bullshit - like Orr. Of course, I have come on and traveled far since then - with Rob, Eddy and the rest of the 'band'. I am versifying too. Glad to have entered 'the land of the living' with them - my world is rocking - naughty boys and girls! Never laughed so much - it's just like Monty!