{"product_id":"elected-friends","title":"Elected Friends - Robert Frost and Edward Thomas: To One Another","description":"Robert  Frost and Edward Thomas met in a bookshop in London in 1913. During the  next four years, the two writers—Frost, an unknown poet who had sold  his farm in New Hampshire in order to take his family to England for one  last gamble on poetry and Thomas, a sad literary journalist—formed the  most important friendship between poets since that of Wordsworth and  Coleridge. Their friendship only ended with Thomas' death in Arras,  France, a casualty of the First World War. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story of Edward  Thomas' turn to poetry, in fact, has been dominated by the account of  Robert Frost's injunction: to break his existing prose into lines,  bringing his musical cadence and his direct speaking voice into  conversation with formal prosody. Thomas himself had already championed  Frost's own early work: \u003ci\u003eThese poems are revolutionary because they  lack the exaggeration of rhetoric.... Their language is free from the  poetical words and forms that are the chief material of the secondary  poets. The metre avoids not only old fashioned pomp and sweetness, but  the later fashion also of discord and fuss. In fact the medium is common  speech.... Mr. Frost has, in fact, gone back, as Whitman and as  Wordsworth went back, through the paraphernalia of poetry into poetry  once again.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book presents for the first time the full  record, arranged chronologically, of what the poets wrote to, for, and  about one another—their letters, poems, and Thomas' review of Frost's  first two books. They reveal a warmth and charm that give us the key to  the relationship between Frost and Thomas.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50957390709024,"sku":"9781590515969","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9781590515969.jpg?v=1763754788","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/elected-friends","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}