Named an Outstanding Academic Book by "Choice" magazine, "The Ordeal of Robert Frost" depicts Frost as a thoroughly contemporary poet, dynamically engaged - in his own way - with the developments of literary modernism and American cultural criticism and with the social and political issues of his time. Placing Frost's critical concerns in a broad context of literary theory, Mark Richardson explores the poet's struggles with the vocation of poetry - spiritually, socially, aesthetically, and personally. Through close readings of Frost's poetry and often ignored prose, Richardson argues that Frost's debates with Van Wyck Brooks, Malcolm Cowley, and H. L. Mencken informed his poetics and his poetic style just as much as did his deep identification with earlier writers like Emerson and William James. Richardson also uncovers Frost's neglected similarities with, and important differences from, Pound and Eliot.
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ADVANCE PRAISE "One of the truly essential books on Frost." -- David Cowart, author of Literary Symbiosis: The Reconfigured Text in Twentieth-Century Writing "An original, daring, deeply committed work that tells us much about Frost's art and the motives behind and embodied in it." -- William H. Pritchard, Henry Clay Folger Professor of English, Amherst College "In The Ordeal of Robert Frost Richardson sheds more light than any other recent writer on Frost... [It is] one of those rare scholarly books likely to find a broader readership." -- Richard Wakefield, Arts and Letters "One of the most accomplished books on Frost to appear in recent years... If you are interested in seeing Frost in a new light--as a poet who responds in subtle and canny ways to ideological strains in American culture through the terms of his poetics--you cannot afford to miss this book." -- Tyler Hoffman, South Atlantic Review
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Mark Richardson has a profound command of the work of Robert Frost. This book was an absolute delight to read. I would recommend it not only to those readers interested in Robert Frost, but in the study of poetry in general.
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Exceptionally good book, and a must-read for anyone interested in Frost, or occupied with the study of his work. Thoughtful and rewarding. Highly recommended.
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IT IS TELLING THAT Frost should remember Mark Twain's literary and cultural "ordeal" when he describes a signal fact about his own literary style and sensibility in the introduction to Edwin Arlington Robinson's King Jasper (1935), quoted on the first page of this study. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
highest liveliness, will braving alien entanglements, muscular poetics, august temper, occupational psychosis, creaking feet, harsher discipline, vocational theme, two compulsions, great predicament, subtle knot, constant symbol, extreme modernists, momentary stay against confusion, silken tent, baby giant, dead selves, inner form, rigid prescriptions, market everything, literary vocation, poetic vocation, deepening commitments, literary marketplace Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Good Hours, Robert Frost, Boy's Will, Mark Twain, Sidney Cox, Kenneth Burke, New England, United States, Van Wyck Brooks, North of Boston, The Birthplace, Louis Untermeyer, Gold Medal, Selected Essays, The Future of Man, The Last Mowing, Some Definitions, The Garden, Anthony Rotundo, Frank Lentricchia, Herbert Read, Richard Poirier, The Freeman, The Lost Follower, Kitty Hawk New!
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IT IS TELLING THAT Frost should remember Mark Twain's literary and cultural "ordeal" when he describes a signal fact about his own literary style and sensibility in the introduction to Edwin Arlington Robinson's King Jasper (1935), quoted on the first page of this study. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
highest liveliness, will braving alien entanglements, muscular poetics, august temper, occupational psychosis, creaking feet, harsher discipline, vocational theme, two compulsions, great predicament, subtle knot, constant symbol, extreme modernists, momentary stay against confusion, silken tent, baby giant, dead selves, inner form, rigid prescriptions, market everything, literary vocation, poetic vocation, deepening commitments, literary marketplace Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Good Hours, Robert Frost, Boy's Will, Mark Twain, Sidney Cox, Kenneth Burke, New England, United States, Van Wyck Brooks, North of Boston, The Birthplace, Louis Untermeyer, Gold Medal, Selected Essays, The Future of Man, The Last Mowing, Some Definitions, The Garden, Anthony Rotundo, Frank Lentricchia, Herbert Read, Richard Poirier, The Freeman, The Lost Follower, Kitty Hawk New!
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