Robert Frost in context /
This new critical volume offers a fresh, multifaceted assessment of Robert Frost's life and works. Nearly every aspect of the poet's career is treated, including his interest in poetics and style, his role as a public figure, his deep fascination with science, psychology and education, his...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Literature in context.
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Table of Contents:
- Editor's preface / by Mark Richardson
- Part I. Frost in Stylistic Contexts: 1. The fate of the Frost speaker / Margery Sabin; 2. The figure Frost's prose makes / Joseph M. Thomas and Mark Richardson; 3. Frost and sports: pitching into poetry / Alec Marsh; 4. Frost as a man of letters / Robert Faggen
- Part II. Literary Historical Contexts: 5. Robert Frost's design / Paul Muldoon; 6. The lay of the land in Frost's Steeple Bush / Jay Parini; 7. Frost and the modern narrative poem / Dana Gioia; 8. Frost and modernism / John Cooper; 9. Frost and modern drama / Yasuko Shiojiri; 10. Frost and the Masque'tradition / David Chandler; 11. Frost and anthologies / Mark Scott; 12. 'Measuring myself against all creation': Robert Frost and pastoral / Robert Bernard Hass; 13. From Thomas Aquinas to The Voyage of the Beagle: Frost's reading / David Tutein
- Part III. Philosophical and Religious Contexts: 14. Frost and pragmatism / Jonathan Levin; 15. Frost and the provocation of religion / James Barszcz; 16. Frost and the Bible / Robert Faggen
- Part IV. Political and Historical Contexts: 17. Frost's political identity / Steven Gould Axelrod; 18. Frost and the Great Depression / David Evans; 19. The post-Reconstruction Frost / Mark Richardson; 20. Frost and the First World War / Tim Kendall; 21. Frost and the Second World War / Grzegorz Kosc; 22. Frost and the Cold War / Steven Gould Axelrod
- Part V. Geopolitical Contexts: 23. 'What became of New England?': Frost and rural sociology / Donald G. Sheehy; 24. Figures of the tourist and guide in Frost / Marit MacArthur; 25. Frost and a 'native America' / Eric Anderson; 26. Reading Frost environmentally: contexts then and now / Thomas Bailey
- Part VI. Biographical Contexts: 27. Frost and the problem of biography / William Pritchard; 28. The Derry years of Robert Frost / Lesley Lee Francis; 29. All the difference: Robert Frost in England, 1912-1915 / Sean Street
- Part VII. Vocational Contexts: 30. Frost and education / Mark Scott; 31. Frost and the institutionalization of poetry / Mark Richardson; 32. The artifactual Frost: the book trade, collectors, and fine printing / Pat Alger; 33. Robert Frost in the magazines / Jonathan N. Barron; 34. Meet the press: Frost as pundit / Lisa Seale; 35. Frost and the public performance of poetry / Tyler Hoffman
- Part VIII. Scientific and Psychiatric Contexts: 36. Frost and astronomy / Henry Atmore; 37. Frost and 'The future of man' / Henry Atmore; 38. 'Everybody's sanity': metaphor and mental health in Frost / Donald G. Sheehy
- Part IX. Frost and Gender: 39. Education by poetry: Robert Frost, women, and children / Karen L. Kilcup; 40. Robert Frost and heroic normativity and the sexual politics of: form / Paul Morrison.