Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel with the World, a 1963 documentary directed by Shirley Clarke, written by Robert Hughes, and featuring on-screen appearances by Frost, Frost, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Randall Jarrell, G. Armour Craig, and Louis Untermeyer. Originally telecast on WGBH-TV, it won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
“Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ.Both work from knowledge; but I suspect they differ most importantly in the way their knowledge is come by. Scholars get theirs with conscientious thoroughness along projected lines of logic; poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like burrs where they walk in the fields.”
Robert Frost, “The Figure a Poem Makes”