A Lover's Quarrel with Robert Frost

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Topics discussed in this episode include:

-The Beatles -Beatles documentary "Get Back" -"The Other Frost" by Randall Jarrell -"Robert Frost: or, the Spiritual Drifter as Poet" by Yvor Winters -"The Other Other Frost" by William Logan -"The Themes of Robert Frost" by Robert Penn Warren -"A History of Modern Poetry" by David Perkins -Phalaecian hendacasyllabics -Catullus I -Plato's "Symposium"

Frost poems mentioned/discussed: -The Road Not Taken -Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -Mending Wall -Fire and Ice -Nothing Gold Can Stay -For Once, Then, Something -Design -Mowing -After Apple-Picking -Birches -The Most of It -The Silken Tent -Come In -Neither Out Far Nor In Deep -To a Moth Seen in Winter -Home Burial

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