How Robert Frost Made Realism Matter Jonathan N. Barron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barron, Jonathan N.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frost, Robert, 1874-1963--Criticism and interpretation.

Frost, Robert.

Frost, Robert, 1874-1963.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st edition.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Columbia, MO : University of Missouri Press, 2015.

Summary:

Robert Frost stood at the intersection of nineteenth-century romanticism and twentieth-century modernism and made both his own. 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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One. The World That Made Robert Frost: The Genteels, Their Values, and Their Publications

Chapter Two. Realism and Genteel Publishing

Chapter Three. An Intellectual Finds His Way: Robert Frost Goes to School

Chapter Four. Robert Frost, Realism, Poetry, and American Publishing of the 1890s: "My Butterfly: An Elegy," "The Birds Do Thus"

Chapter Five. Discovering Realism: Frost, 1897-99

Chapter Six. Robert Frost's Poetry of Ideas, 1906-8: "Trial by Existence," "The Lost Faith," "A Line-Storm Song," and "Across the Atlantic"

Chapter Seven. Robert Frost's New Poetic Realism, 1909-10: "Into Mine Own," "The Flower Boat"

Chapter Eight. Coming into His Own: Robert Frost, 1910-12: "Reluctance"

Chapter Nine. Robert Frost in England: A Boy's Will

Chapter Ten. Robert Frost: Public Poet at Last: "The Death of the Hired Man"

Chapter Eleven. Inventing a New Poetry: "A Hundred Collars," "The Fear"

Chapter Twelve. Robert Frost, a Realist in the Magazines of Modernism: "The Housekeeper" and "The Code"

Chapter Thirteen. Poet of the New American Poetry: North of Boston, "Putting in the Seed"

Chapter Fourteen. The American Magazines of 1915 and the Making of Robert Frost

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826273512

0826273513

OCLC:

982122379