Robert Frost, writing about Thornton Wilder, said Wilder tried to say too much in his plays and novels and that stretching his voice that vehemently had undone the elasticity necessary for coherence. He basically said that Wilder had blown his voice out by trying to say too much. “You have to hold something back for pressure,” Frost said, and he was rig…
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