In a message dated 23/10/2006 15:42:42 GMT Standard Time, Chaswe@AOL.COM
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