Here are some words from another poet, Robert Hillyer, who's now lesser-known, though he was a Pulitzer Prize for poetry winner and was included in Louis Untermeyer's Modern American Poetry survey published in between-the-world-wars era. His "A Letter to Robert Frost" is a long poem in rhyming couplets about the comic mutability of poetic fashion, which he tells us is applied even retroactively to dead poets. To introduce that theme (as reflected briefly in the parts I excerpt today) Hillyer tells how he remembers, when he was a younger poet, talking about Emily Dickisnon with multiple Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Frost during the years Front taught at Amherst College.
I set some quotes from Hillyer's poem to original music. I plan to write more about it and its testimony of the tides moving in and out regarding Emily Dickinson later this weekend. That longer consideration, along with nearly 900 other musical pieces combining various words, mostly literary poetry, with original music in differing styles that the long-running Parlando Project has done will be found at frankhudson.org
