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Robert Frost on the Pound-Abercrombie duel that never was

Peter Howarth’s November 6 LRB review of Robert Frost’s recently published Notebooks mentions the first draft of his unpublished play about the duel to which Ezra Pound challenged the poet Lascelles Abercrombie in 1913, “after Abercrombie had proposed that modern poetry could learn from Wordsworth’s interest in contemporary speech” — a suggestion that could have [...]