Robert Frost will conduct the fifth in his series of poetry readings at the University in the New Lecture Hall, tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The meeting will be open to servicemen and their wives, and all members of the University.
Holds Chair at Dartmouth
At the fourth of these readings on August 9, the New England poet, an associate of Adams House, stressed the importance to modern poets of understanding America. At the informal meeting, attended by more than 200 servicemen and their friends, Frost rapped modern free verse and its authors. Dismissing the thought that to rhyme is "frivolous," he stated that "the fascination is in the rhyming." The Vermont, holder of a chair at Dartmouth, said that real poetry according to his ideas, dwells "on the purity of a fact."
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