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| | Twentieth Century Literature: Learning to Hover: Robert Frost, Robert Francis, and the Poetry of Detached Engagement |
 | | It is nothing against Robert Francis that he often resembles Robert Frost." And though Untermeyer admires Francis's lyrics for the way in which "they blend observation with imagination," he adds, finally, "[b]ut we know who wrote them first" (345). |
| | Ironically, Francis adopted this stance on the advice of Frost, whose words are invoked in the poem "For the Ghost of Robert Frost." Here, Francis pictures detached engagement as the hovering of a hummingbird over a flower, defining, in the process, an important way in which he has outgrown Frost: |
| | In Robert Francis's reminiscence of Robert Frost, A Time to Talk, the entry dated April 4, 1932, contains a poem published the day before in the Springfield Republican and Union. |
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