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Author: Robert Frost Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780805070217 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 548
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No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. This is a collection of rich cornucopia of Frost's speeches, interviews, correspondence, one-act plays, and other prose.
Author: Robert Frost Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780805070217 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 548
Book Description
No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. This is a collection of rich cornucopia of Frost's speeches, interviews, correspondence, one-act plays, and other prose.
Author: Judith Oster Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 9780820316215 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 364
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Every poem, Robert Frost declared, "is an epitome of the great predicament, a figure of the will braving alien entanglements". This study considers what Frost meant by those entanglements, how he braved them in his poetry, and how he invited his readers to do the same. In the process it contributes significantly to a new critical awareness of Frost as a complex artist who anticipated postmodernism--a poet who invoked literary traditions and conventions frequently to set himself in tension with them. Using the insights of reader-response theory, Judith Oster explains how Frost appeals to readers with his apparent accessibility and then, because of the openness of his poetry's possibilities, engages them in the process of constructing meaning. Frost's poems, she demonstrates, teach the reader how they should be read; at the same time, they resist closure and definitive reading. The reader's acts of encountering and constructing the poems parallel Frost's own encounters and acts of construction. Commenting at length on a number of individual poems, Oster ranges in her discussion from the ways in which the poet dramatizes the inadequacy of the self alone to the manner in which he "reads" the Book of Genesis or the writing of Emerson. Oster illuminates, finally, the central conflict in Frost: his need to be read well against his fear of being read; his need to share his creation against his fear of its appropriation by others.
Author: Robert Frost Publisher: Holt McDougal ISBN: Category : American poetry Languages : en Pages : 504
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Robert Frost continues to be recognized and cherished as America's favorite poet. Few readers, however, are familiar with the diversity of his literary achievement. This book presents some of his best-known poems against the background of his other writings. Part I includes selections from individual books of verses; Part II contains examples of his earliest poetry and prose, narratives for his children, stories published in poultry magazines while he was a farm-poultryman, a one-act play, extracts from correspondence, formal essays, public talks, interviews, excerpts from notebooks, and uncollected verse. -- From publisher's description.
Author: Robert Frost Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1684129249 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 263
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The early works of beloved poet Robert Frost, collected in one volume. The poetry of Robert Frost is praised for its realistic depiction of rural life in New England during the early twentieth century, as well as for its examination of social and philosophical issues. Through the use of American idiom and free verse, Frost produced many enduring poems that remain popular with modern readers. A Collection of Poems by Robert Frost contains all the poems from his first four published collections: A Boy’s Will (1913), North of Boston (1914), Mountain Interval (1916), and New Hampshire (1923), including classics such as “The Road Not Taken,” “Fire and Ice,” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.”
Author: Tim Kendall Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300118139 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 408
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Offers detailed accounts of sixty-five poems that span Frost's writing career and assesses the particular nature of the poet's style, discussing how it changes over time and relates to the works of contemporary poets and movements.
Author: Jay Parini Publisher: Henry Holt and Company ISBN: 1466877804 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 545
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This fascinating reassessment of America's most popular and famous poet reveals a more complex and enigmatic man than many readers might expect. Jay Parini spent over twenty years interviewing friends of Robert Frost and working in the poet's archives at Dartmouth, Amherst, and elsewhere to produce this definitive and insightful biography of both the public and private man. While he depicts the various stages of Frost's colorful life, Parini also sensitively explores the poet's psyche, showing how he dealt with adversity, family tragedy, and depression. By taking the reader into the poetry itself, which he reads closely and brilliantly, Parini offers an insightful road map to Frost's remarkable world.
Author: David Orr Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0698140893 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 127
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A cultural “biography” of Robert Frost’s beloved poem, arguably the most popular piece of literature written by an American “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood . . .” One hundred years after its first publication in August 1915, Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” is so ubiquitous that it’s easy to forget that it is, in fact, a poem. Yet poetry it is, and Frost’s immortal lines remain unbelievably popular. And yet in spite of this devotion, almost everyone gets the poem hopelessly wrong. David Orr’s The Road Not Taken dives directly into the controversy, illuminating the poem’s enduring greatness while revealing its mystifying contradictions. Widely admired as the poetry columnist for The New York Times Book Review, Orr is the perfect guide for lay readers and experts alike. Orr offers a lively look at the poem’s cultural influence, its artistic complexity, and its historical journey from the margins of the First World War all the way to its canonical place today as a true masterpiece of American literature. “The Road Not Taken” seems straightforward: a nameless traveler is faced with a choice: two paths forward, with only one to walk. And everyone remembers the traveler taking “the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.” But for a century readers and critics have fought bitterly over what the poem really says. Is it a paean to triumphant self-assertion, where an individual boldly chooses to live outside conformity? Or a biting commentary on human self-deception, where a person chooses between identical roads and yet later romanticizes the decision as life altering? What Orr artfully reveals is that the poem speaks to both of these impulses, and all the possibilities that lie between them. The poem gives us a portrait of choice without making a decision itself. And in this, “The Road Not Taken” is distinctively American, for the United States is the country of choice in all its ambiguous splendor. Published for the poem’s centennial—along with a new Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Frost’s poems, edited and introduced by Orr himself—The Road Not Taken is a treasure for all readers, a triumph of artistic exploration and cultural investigation that sings with its own unforgettably poetic voice.
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