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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of |
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| Representatives are pleased to congratulate Dr. Peter J. |
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| Stanlis of Rockford on the publication of Robert Frost: The |
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| Poet As Philosopher in October of 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, The book was published by the Intercollegiate |
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| Studies Institute in Wilmington, Delaware and distributed by |
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| the University of Chicago Press; it honors twenty-three years |
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| of friendship with Robert Frost and fulfills a promise made to |
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| the poet by Dr. Stanlis that he would someday write a book |
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| about Robert Frost and his art as a poet and philosopher; and
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| WHEREAS, The book captures Robert Frost and his perspective |
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| on the cultural heritage of Western and American civilization, |
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| showing human creativity and the arts provide the basis of |
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| civilization, its education, science, and politics; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Stanlis was the co-founder of the American |
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| Society of Eighteenth Century Studies in 1969; he is one of the |
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| few Americans honored with an appointment as a British Academy |
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| Research Fellow in 1987; he became a member of the Academic |
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| Board of the National Humanities Institute in 1987; and he was |
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| appointed to the National Endowment for the Humanities by |
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| former President Reagan and served from 1982 to 1988; and
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