Others shared Coolidge’s sense of isolation. So many habits of the 1920s—the affection for the individual, the enthusiasm for the reproduction of colonial furniture, the attention to New England, suddenly seemed outdated. Even Robert Frost, who had felt himself unassailable, now sensed that he was wrong for what he called “these times.” “Mr. Frost does not understand our time and will make no effort to understand it,” the critic Isidor Schneider wrote in The Nation. He accused Frost of replying to contemporary ideas “with know-nothing arrogance.” Schneider mocked Frost’s denial of social
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