During the next few months, Frost originated to know the writers Robert Bridges, Walter de la Mare, W. H. Davies, and Ralph Hodgson; the Georgian poets Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Gibson, Lascelles Abercrombie; and the essayist and poet Edward Thomas, who would developed his bosom friend. With Flint and T. E. Hulme he debated poetics, having spoken in letters to his Pinkerton friends John Bartlett and Sidney Cox of "the hums of sense with all their loophole of accent across the systematic beat of the metre" and "the sentence sound [that] often says more than the words." He also wrote that he needed not "a success with the critical few" but "to get outdoor to the general reader who buys books by the thousands."
In April, badly stressed for funds,
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Before long he wished-for marriage, nonetheless she maintained on clandestineness, on upholding appearances. "We required to marry," he told Stanley Burnshaw, his publishing supervisor in the 1960s. "It was all definite. Nonetheless you know how stuffs seem at times--others to reflect of. It was supposed best," he repeated, "It was assumed best" , marriage deprived of benefit of ministry, an different way of life. He continued to poet around and to impart, residing from January over March at "Pencil Pines," his afresh built Miami retreat; at his Cambridge house pending late May; then in Ripton, close Bread loaf, for the summer; and in Cambridge again …show more content…
S. Eliot (who in 1922 had dismissed Frost's verse as "unreadable") grilled him as "perhaps the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet now living," who have a "kind of local feeling in poetry . .. can go without universality: the relation of Dante to Florence, . . . of Robert Frost to New