After the war Whitman's books began to sell well, and he contributed several articles to magazines. ... Among his other books were Mountain Interval' published in 1916, West-Running Brook' published in 1928, and In the Clearing' published in 1962 {Cox, 57} Frost taught or held advisory posts at Amherst and Dartmouth colleges, the University of Michigan, Harvard University, and other schools. ...

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Once he learned to read, the young boy immediately became obsessed with books and was completely absorbed in tales depicting savages, the Wild West, or Mark Twain's thrill-seeking Tom Sawyer. ... Eliot wrote to Conrad Aiken on New Year's Eve 1914: "I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls...Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead." ...

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