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050 00 $aPS3511.R94$bZ865 2003
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100 1 $aPack, Robert,$d1929-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79139669
245 10 $aBelief and uncertainty in the poetry of Robert Frost /$cRobert Pack.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aHanover [N.H.] :$bMiddlebury College Press ;$aLebanon, N.H. :$bUniversity Press of New England,$c[2003], ©2003.
300 $axv, 242 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 235) and indexes.
505 00 $tIntroduction /$rJay Parini -- $g1.$tTaking Dominion over the Wilderness -- $g2.$tDarwin, the Book of Job, and Frost's A Masque of Reason -- $g3.$tLoss and Inheritance in Wordsworth's "Michael" and Frost's "Wild Grapes" -- $g4.$tMourning and Acceptance -- $g5.$tThe Modern Muse: Stevens and Frost -- $g6.$tEnigmatical Reserve: Robert Frost as Teacher and Preacher -- $g7.$tRobert Frost's "As If" Belief -- $g8.$tSelf-Deception, Lying, and Fictive Truthfulness -- $g9.$tReading the Landscape: Place and Nothingness -- $g10.$tParenthood and Perspective.
520 1 $a"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. Chapter one sets Frost's work in the tradition of nature writing, from the Book of Genesis through modern American ecological works. Chapter two examines the profound influences of the Book of Job, Darwin, and evolutionary theory on Frost's thinking. There follow chapters that structurally and philosophically compare Wordsworth's "Michael" to Frost's "Wild Grapes," focusing on the themes in inheritance, grieving, and the potency of the imagination. The reader encounters Frost as teacher and preacher, Frost's idea of how beliefs are affirmed, the simultaneous representation of adult memory and immediate childhood sensation, and the underlying duality of place and nothingness, which forms the existential background for his "stay against confusion" - the consoling purpose of Frost's poetic art."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aFrost, Robert,$d1874-1963$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aBelief and doubt in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013005
852 00 $bglx$hPS3511.R94$iZ865 2003