No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

Robert Frost

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Topic

Artist and audience Writing

Author

Robert Frost

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United States

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Original Citation

Frost, Robert. "The Figure a Poem Makes." Collected Poems of Robert Frost. Holt/Longmans, Green and Co., 1939.

Current Citation

Frost, Robert. "The Figure a Poem Makes." Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays. Edited by Richard Poirier and Mark Richardson. Library of America, 1995.

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