Robert Frost (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

✍ Scribed by Harold Bloom (Edited and with an Introduction by)

• Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 332
• Series: Bloom's Modern Critical Views
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Robert Frost rivals Wallace Stevens as the great American poet of the 20th century. His uniqueness among modern American poets stems from his independence from Walt Whitman. Examine the poetry of Frost through the eyes of some of the best modern critics. This title, Robert Frost, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of Robert Frost through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on Robert Frost, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Editor’s Note......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
RICHARD POIRIER - Choices......Page 18
DAVID BROMWICH - Wordsworth, Frost, Stevens and the Poetic Vocation......Page 38
HERBERT MARKS - The Counter-Intelligence of Robert Frost......Page 54
CHARLES BERGER - Echoing Eden: Frost and Origins......Page 76
SHIRA WOLOSKY - The Need of Being Versed: Robert Frost and the Limits of Rhetoric......Page 96
GEORGE F. BAGBY - The Promethean Frost......Page 118
MARK RICHARDSON - Robert Frost and the Motives of Poetry......Page 148
KATHERINE KEARNS - The Serpent’s Tail......Page 170
SEAMUS HEANEY - Above the Brim......Page 210
ROBERT FAGGEN - The Fact Is the Sweetest Dream: Darwin, Pragmatism, and Poetic Knowledge......Page 228
TYLER HOFFMAN - The Sense of Sound and the Silent Text......Page 280
Chronology......Page 304
Contributors......Page 308
Bibliography......Page 312
Acknowledgments......Page 316
Index......Page 318