Robert Frost read The Road Not Taken in front of Amherst College students on the invitation of Alexander Meiklejohn, an educator and president of Amherst. Meiklejohn, in the effort of making Amherst into a place of essentially intellectual, a place of mind, a liberal college; invite the poet to join the Amherst College faculty. The president might have congratulated himself by taking the less traveled road and invited a poet who's lack of college degree, into his faculty.

Pritchard then comments on the nature of Frost: his wildness spirit and its unwillingness to be restrained within the form

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