Bibliograph

How Robert Frost made realism matter, Jonathan N. Barron

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How Robert Frost made realism matter, Jonathan N. Barron

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-318) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

How Robert Frost made realism matter

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

930876971

Responsibility statement

Jonathan N. Barron

Summary

Robert Frost stood at the intersection of nineteenth-century romanticism and twentieth-century modernism and made both his own. Frost adapted the genteel values and techniques of nineteenth-century poetry, but Barron argues that it was his commitment to realism that gave him popular as well as scholarly appeal and created his enduring legacy. This highly researched consideration of Frost investigates early innovative poetry that was published in popular magazines from 1894 to 1915 and reveals a voice of dissent that anticipated "The New Poetry" -- a voice that would come to dominate American poetry as few others have

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