The ordeal of Robert Frost
the poet and his poetics
by Mark Richardson
The Ordeal of Robert Frost depicts Frost not as a rugged individualist, but as a thoroughly contemporary poet, dynamically engaged - in his own way - in the developments of literary modernism and American cultural criticism, and in the social and political issues of his time.
Through close readings of Frost's poetry and often ignored prose, Mark Richardson argues that Frost's debates with Van Wyck Brooks, Malcolm Cowley, and H. L. Mencken informed his poetics and his poetic style just as much as did his deep identification with earlier writers like Emerson and William James.
In this light, Richardson uncovers Frost's neglected similarities with, and important differences from, Pound and Eliot, and explores as well his struggles with the vocation of poetry - spiritually, socially, aesthetically, and personally.
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Aesthetics, Literature and society, Poetics, Poetry, Political and social views, Literary style, Authorship, Individualism in literature, History, Style, Poesie, Litterature et societe, Poetique, Esthetique, Pensee politique et sociale, Art d'ecrire, Histoire, Individualisme dans la litterature, Frost, robert, 1874-1963, American poetry, history and criticism, 20th century, Poetry, authorshipPeople
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The Ordeal of Robert Frost: THE POET AND HIS POETICS
July 26, 2000, University of Illinois Press
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The ordeal of Robert Frost: the poet and his poetics
1997, University of Illinois Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-263) and index.
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