Today’s Poem: For Once, Then, Something

Robert Frost, the classical modern

A well with its well-curb (Wikimedia Commons)

It’s all too easy not to notice, especially if you aren’t a classicist yourself, the classicism of Robert Frost (1874–1963). As the mid-20th-century critic Gorham Munson notes (in an essay called, in fact, “The Classicism of Robert Frost,” published in 1964), it was Frost’s dubious fortune, as he rose to lite…