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Robert Frost
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The Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost by Robert Faggen (Editor)ISBN: 9780521632485
Publication Date: 2001-06-14
This collection of specially-commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Robert Frost's poetry and life. The essays in this volume enable readers to explore Frost's art and thought, from the controversies of his biography to his subtle reinvention of poetic and metric traditions and the conflicts in his thought about politics, gender, science and religion. This volume will bring fresh perspectives to the lyric, narrative and dramatic poetry of an American master.
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Belief and Uncertainty in the Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert PackISBN: 9781584654568
Publication Date: 2004-12-07
Robert Pack's lifelong delight in Robert Frost's intricate, beautiful, and profound poetry shines through in the essays in this book. He confronts such broad themes as mourning, inheritance, nature, and the imagination, bringing to bear historical, psychological, Darwinian, and close-textual-reading interpretive approaches. The reader encounters Frost as teacher and preacher, Frost's idea of how beliefs are affirmed, and the consoling purpose of Frost's poetic art.
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Robert Frost: A Life by Jay PariniISBN: 9780805031812
Publication Date: 1999-03-26
This fascinating reassessment of America's most popular and famous poet reveals a more complex and enigmatic man than many readers might expect. Jay Parini spent over twenty years interviewing friends of Frost and working in the poet's archives at Dartmouth, Amherst, and elsewhere to produce this definitive and insightful portrait of both the public and private man. While he depicts the various stages of Frost's colorful life, Parini also sensitively explores the poet's psyche.
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Robert Frost: A Biography by Jeffrey MeyersISBN: 9780395728093
Publication Date: 1996-05-01
Jeffrey Meyers has given us a radically new interpretation of Robert Frost's life. The poet that emerges from this biography is neither the hayseed sage that Frost personified in public nor the monster in human form portrayed by his previous biographer. Meyer's new biography reveals numerous things for the first time - but, most notably, the fact that after Elinor Frost's death in 1938, Frost became passionately involved, in his sixties, with his secretary, the wife of a Harvard lecturer.
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Roads Not Taken: Rereading Robert Frost by Earl J. Wilcox (Editor); Jonathan N. Barron (Editor)ISBN: 9780826213051
Publication Date: 2000-01-15
In Roads Not Taken, Earl J. Wilcox and Jonathan N. Barron bring a new freshness and depth to the study of one of America's greatest poets. All the contributors, many of whom have written books on Frost, are widely recognized scholars. Their diverse viewpoints and collective expertise make this volume of essays the most significant contribution to Frost criticism to be published in over twenty years.
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Frost's Road Taken by Robert F. FleissnerISBN: 9780820431215
Publication Date: 1996-11-01
By focusing on Robert Frost first as a Romantic-Realist, Professor Fleissner shows Frost's debt to major British Romantics, Victorians, as well as American poets. Dr. Fleissner comes to terms with Frost as a spiritual writer, stressing his use of the Bible, and discusses a transcription of a Frost manuscript of a new poetic construct. Lastly the author provides an up-to-date account of the poet's relation to multiculturalism in terms of ethnic issues.
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Robert Frost in Context by Mark Richardson (Editor)ISBN: 9781107022881
Publication Date: 2014-04-14
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: his interest in poetics and style; his role as a public figure; his deep fascination with science, psychology, and education; his peculiar and difficult relation to religion; his investments, as thinker and writer, in politics and war; and the way he dealt with problems of mental illness that beset his sister and two of his children.
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How Robert Frost Made Realism Matter by Jonathan N. BarronISBN: 9780826273512
Publication Date: 2016-07-06
Frost adapted the genteel values and techniques of nineteenth-century poetry, but Barron argues that it was his commitment to realism that gave him popular as well as scholarly appeal and created his enduring legacy. This highly researched consideration of Frost investigates early innovative poetry that was published in popular magazines from 1894 to 1915 and reveals a voice of dissent that anticipated "The New Poetry" - a voice that would come to dominate American poetry as few others have.
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Robert Frost and the New England Renaissance by George MonteiroISBN: 9780813157016
Publication Date: 2014-10-17
George Monteiro's book enhances our understanding of Frost's most valuable poems by demonstrating the ways in which they circulate among the constellations of great poems and essays of the New England Renaissance. Monteiro reads Frost's own poetry in the light of poems and essays by his precursors, particularly Emerson, Thoreau, and Dickinson. Familiar poems as well as lesser known poems are renewed by fresh and original readings that show why and how these poems pay tribute to their distinguished sources.
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You Come Too: My Journey with Robert Frost by Lesley Lee FrancisISBN: 9780813937465
Publication Date: 2015-12-03
In You Come Too, Frost's granddaughter, Lesley Lee Francis, combines priceless personal memories and rigorous research to create a portrait of Frost and the women, including herself, whose lives he touched. Francis provides a vivid picture of Frost the family man, revealing him to be intensely engaged rather than the aloof artist that is commonly portrayed. She shares with us the devastation Frost and Elinor experienced when faced with tragic illnesses, both physical and mental, and the untimely death of family members.
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Robert Frost and Northern Irish Poetry by Rachel BuxtonISBN: 9780191514715
Publication Date: 2004-05-01
In this incisive and highly readable study, Rachel Buxton offers a much-needed assessment of Frost's significance for Northern Irish poetry of the past half-century. Drawing upon a diverse range of previously unpublished archival sources, including juvenilia, correspondence, and drafts of poems, Robert Frost and Northern Irish Poetry takes as its particular focus the triangular dynamic of Frost, Seamus Heaney, and Paul Muldoon. Buxton explores the differing strengths which each Irish poet finds in Frost's work.
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Readings on Robert Frost by Andrea De FuscoISBN: 9781565109995
Publication Date: 1999-03-01
The "people's poet" is covered in memorable essays that cover individual poems as well as Frost's major themes and imagery. Andrea De Fusco wrote this volume as part of the Greenhaven Press Literary Companion to American Authors series.
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