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Robert Frost in Context

Mark Richardson editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:14th Apr '14

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Forty essays from influential scholars and poets offer a fresh, multifaceted assessment of the life and works of Robert Frost.

A fresh, multifaceted assessment of Robert Frost's life and works. Contributors include a number of influential scholars, but also such distinguished poets as Paul Muldoon, Dana Gioia, Mark Scott, and Jay Parini. Essays employ highly readable prose, offering scholars and students of Frost an accessible yet comprehensive reference and guide.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.

ISBN: 9781107022881

Dimensions: 236mm x 158mm x 27mm

Weight: 710g

434 pages