Robert Frost in context / edited by Mark Richardson, Doshisha University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Richardson, Mark, 1963- editor.

Series:

Literature in context.

Literature in context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Frost, Robert.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 406 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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; the way he dealt with problems of mental illness that beset his sister and two of his children; and, finally, the complex geo-political contexts that inform some of his best poetry. Contributors include a number of influential scholars of Frost, but also such distinguished poets as Paul Muldoon, Dana Gioia, Mark Scott, and Jay Parini. Essays eschew jargon and employ highly readable prose, offering scholars, students, and general readers of Frost a broadly accessible reference and guide.

Contents:

Editor's preface / by Mark Richardson

Part I. Stylistic Contexts:

1. The fate of the Frost speaker / Margery Sabin

2. The figure Frost's prose makes / Joseph M. Thomas and Mark Richardson

3. Frost and sports: pitching into poetry / Alec Marsh

4. Frost as a man of letters / Robert Faggen

Part II. Literary-Historical Contexts:

5. Robert Frost's design / Paul Muldoon

6. The lay of the land in Frost's Steeple Bush / Jay Parini

7. Frost and the modern narrative poem / Dana Gioia

8. Frost and modernism / John Xiros Cooper

9. Frost and modern drama / Yasuko Shiojiri

10. Frost and the Masque tradition / David Chandler

11. Frost and anthologies / Mark Scott

12. 'Measuring myself against all creation': Robert Frost and pastoral / Robert Bernard Hass

13. From Thomas Aquinas to The Voyage of the Beagle: Frost's reading / David Tutein

Part III. Philosophical and Religious Contexts:

14. Frost and pragmatism / Jonathan Levin

15. Frost and the provocation of religion / James Barszcz

16. Frost and the Bible / Robert Faggen

Part IV. Political and Historical Contexts:

17. Frost's political identity / Steven Gould Axelrod

18. Frost and the Great Depression / David Evans

19. The post-Reconstruction Frost / Mark Richardson

20. Frost and the First World War / Tim Kendall

21. Frost and the Second World War / Grzegorz Kosc

22. Frost and the Cold War / Steven Gould Axelrod

Part V. Geopolitical Contexts:

23. 'What became of New England?': Frost and rural sociology / Donald G. Sheehy

24. Figures of the tourist and guide in Frost / Marit MacArthur

25. Frost and a 'native America' / Eric Anderson

26. Reading Frost environmentally: contexts then and now / Thomas Bailey

Part VI. Biographical Contexts:

27. Frost and the problem of biography / William Pritchard

28. The Derry years of Robert Frost / Lesley Lee Francis

29. All the difference: Robert Frost in England, 1912-1915 / Sean Street

Part VII. Vocational Contexts:

30. Frost and education / Mark Scott

31. Frost and the institutionalization of poetry / Mark Richardson

32. The artifactual Frost: the book trade, collectors, and fine printing / Pat Alger

33. Robert Frost in the magazines / Jonathan N. Barron

34. Meet the press: Frost as pundit / Lisa Seale

35. Frost and the public performance of poetry / Tyler Hoffman

Part VIII. Scientific and Psychiatric Contexts:

36. Frost and astronomy / Henry Atmore

37. Frost and 'The future of man' / Henry Atmore

38. 'Everybody's sanity': metaphor and mental health in Frost / Donald G. Sheehy

Part IX. Frost and Gender:

39. Education by poetry: Robert Frost, women, and children / Karen L. Kilcup

40. Robert Frost and heroic normativity and the sexual politics of form / Paul Morrison.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-89857-4

1-139-91424-3

1-139-90451-5

1-139-90256-3

1-139-13721-2

1-139-91031-0

1-139-92205-X

1-139-91816-8

1-139-90645-3