friendship
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The History of Literature #93 – Robert Frost Finds a Friend
It’s a curious but compelling story: it starts in the years just before World War I, when struggling poet Robert Frost (1874-1963) hastily packed up his family and moved to London in search of a friend. Although Frost’s efforts to ingratiate himself with W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound fizzled, he soon found a man, critic Edward Thomas Continue reading
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To Catch a Spy: Graham Greene’s Deathbed Revelation
It’s one of the great mysteries of Graham Greene’s life, and it may have cost him the Nobel Prize. I alluded to it in the podcast that Mike and I did on Greene’s life and works. Part of it isn’t a mystery at all, of course. We know that Greene worked for Britain’s foreign intelligence Continue reading
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