I couldn't agree less.  Frost's overriding idea of the sentence
sound, "the sound of sense," though hardly as splashy as
Pound's "Make It New," did much to undercut the genteel
voice in early 20th-century American poetry.  Each contributed
greatly to changing the way poetry came to be written after
their innovative early work.
==Dan

At 01:18 PM 03/13/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Dear Kate,
>
>   ... Frost wasn't even worried
>about a new idiom for poetry, he wasn't concerned with
>that MAKE IT NEW motto (and that's why he got so upset
>about Pound's review that said:"he paints the thing as
>he sees it").

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