Robert Frost and the New England Renaissance / George Monteiro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Monteiro, George.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--New England--History and criticism.

New England--Intellectual life--19th century.

New England.

Frost, Robert, 1874-1963--Sources.

Frost, Robert.

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

Frost, Robert, 1874-1963--Knowledge--New England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 176 pages)

Other Title:

Robert Frost and the New England renaissance.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""A poem is best read in the light of all the other poems ever written."" So said Robert Frost in instructing readers on how to achieve poetic literacy. George Monteiro's newest book follows that dictum to enhance 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 not against ""all the other poems ever written"" but in the light of poems and essays by his precursors, particularly Emerson, Thoreau, and Dickinson. Familiar poems such

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface: Raking the Leaves Away; 1. Directives; PART ONE: Dickinson, Etc.; 2. Dangling Conversation; 3. One Hand Clapping; 4. Designs; 5. Roads and Paths; PART TWO: The Thorosian Poem; 6. Education by Metaphor; 7. Bonfires; 8. Economy; 9. Smoke; 10. Solitary Singer; 11. Swinging; PART THREE: Mainly Emerson; 12. Nature's Gold; 13. Linked Analogies; 14. Dominion; 15. Substantiation; PART FOUR: Coda; 16. Tributaries; Notes; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [153]-170.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813130774

0813130778

9780813157016

0813157013

OCLC:

647028291