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Robert Frost's `The Road Not Taken' seen as America's most popular |
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April 5, 2000
WASHINGTON,
APR 4 (AP) - Americans favor "The Road Not Taken."
Two
years ago, poet laureate Robert Pinsky launched a campaign to discover
America's favorite poem. He received nearly 18,000 written, videotaped and
recorded suggestions, and has found the most popular one - Robert Frost's
"The Road Not Taken."
It's
the one that ends: "Two
roads diverged in a wood, and I - "I
took the one less traveled by, "And
that has made all the difference."
Pinsky
presented some of the results from his project Monday to the Library of
Congress for its archives: 100 video and audio recordings of Americans from
all walks of life reading their favorite
verses.
More
selections and comments from those who chose them appear in a book
"Americans' Favorite Poems," edited by Pinsky and Maggie Dietz.
Pinsky,
whose term as poet laureate ends in May, said in an interview that W. W.
Norton, the publisher, has recently ordered a fourth printing - 10,000
copies. A Norton publicist declined to give total sales since it was
published in November but said it was "doing extraordinarily
well," especially for a book of poetry.
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