Robert Frost in Context

Mark Richardson

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781107022881
• eBook ISBN: 9781139898577
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Contributors
• Editor’s Preface
• Abbreviations
• Part I Stylistic Contexts
• Part II Literary–Historical Contexts
• Part III Philosophical and Religious Contexts
• Part IV Political and Historical Contexts
• Part V Geopolitical Contexts
• Part VI Biographical Contexts
• Part VII Vocational Contexts
• Part VIII Scientific and Psychiatric Contexts
• Part IX Frost and Gender
• Further Reading
• Index