Overflow Crowd Hears Frost

Overflow Crowd Hears Frost

Some 1,400 persons crowded the Rackham lecture hall last night, many of them standing in the back of the auditorium and along the aisles, to hear the distinguished American poet, Robert Frost, lecture on poetry here last night.

Frost read some of his best-known poems and then some of his recent ones, including “The Individualist,” “Why Wait for Science?” and “Departmental.”

The chief thing asked of poetry is truth—not science, not literature and not scholarship, Frost said. Speaking of the creative act in general, he declared, “When you create something you forgive chaos.”

Frost’s appearance here was his first since 1926 when he left the University after the holding the position of creative arts fellow here for three years. Prof. L. I. Bredvold, chairman of the English department who introduced Frost, said that the fellowship was designed expressly “to capture Robert Frost.”