Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

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Word & Song by Anthony Esolen
Word & Song by Anthony Esolen
Robert Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

Robert Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

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Anthony Esolen
Jan 11, 2023
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Word & Song by Anthony Esolen
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Robert Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
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One of the marks of great art is that you can never come to an end of appreciating it.  It stands before you, remarkably itself, as if it possessed a human soul, and perhaps, in a way, it does; or rather, a human soul has poured itself into the work, and you can no more learn it all the way through than you can know a human being all the way through.  A…

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