[lbo-talk] Robert Frost Defends Robespierre, Lenin, Mao

[Carrol Cox]

> 
> I don't but I can say confidently that it's horribly bad verse.
> Somebody needed to read their Dryden.
> 

Yes -- but no worse than the couplets in Eliot's first draft of The
Waste Land, which on Pound's good advice he left out. Pound told him, if
you want to parody Pope you have to write as good couples as he did --
and you can't.

Carrol