The Life of Robert Frost (eBook)

A Critical Biography

Henry Hart (Autor)

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2017
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-119-10367-7 (ISBN)

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The Life of Robert Frost presents a unique and rich approach to the poet that includes original genealogical research concerning Frost's ancestors, and a demonstration of how mental illness plagued the Frost family and heavily influenced Frost's poetry.

• A widely revealing biography of Frost that discusses his often perplexing journey from humble roots to poetic fame, revealing new details of Frost's life
• Takes a unique approach by giving attention to Frost's genealogy and the family history of mental illness, presenting a complete picture of Frost's complexity
• Discusses the traumatic effect on Frost of his father's early death and the impact on his poetry and outlook
• Presents original information on the influence of his mother's Swedenborgian mysticism

HENRY HART is currently the Mildred and J. B. Hickman Professor of Humanities at the College of William and Mary, and Poet Laureate of Virginia. He has published several books of literary criticism about modern poets, including The Poetry of Geoffrey Hill (1986), Seamus Heaney: Poet of Contrary Progressions (1991), Robert Lowell and the Sublime (1995), and James Dickey: The World as a Lie (2000).

Inhalt

Title Page 5
Copyright Page 6
Contents 9
Acknowledgments 11
List of Abbreviations and Author’s Note 13
Chapter 1 The New England Frosts 15
Chapter 2 Rebel Sons and Punitive Fathers 22
Chapter 3 Strong Man’s Food and Swedenborgian Mysticism 32
Chapter 4 “A Boy’s Will Is the Wind’s Will” 40
Chapter 5 Reluctant Yankees 53
Chapter 6 Monuments to After?thought 69
Chapter 7 “Precipitate in Love” 78
Chapter 8 Adventures in the Great Dismal Swamp 94
9 From Riffraff to Harvard 107
10 Deaths of a Son and a Hired Man 118
Chapter 11 Indoor and Outdoor Schooling 135
Chapter 12 Hen Man in the Academy 148
Chapter 13 To the Land of The Golden Treasury 162
Chapter 14 The Lively Gallows 181
Chapter 15 Victory at Home 194
Chapter 16 Amherst Interval 216
Chapter 17 Sense and Sensibility 231
Chapter 18 A Home that Never Was on Land or Sea 244
Chapter 19 Something beyond Conflict 254
Chapter 20 Delivering Battle 265
Chapter 21 Weddings, Divorces, and Funerals 275
Chapter 22 A Survivalist’s Further Range 292
Chapter 23 Elinor’s Final Ordeal 308
Chapter 24 Inferno to Vita Nuova 316
Chapter 25 A Biblical Job by a Witness Tree 334
Chapter 26 Mercy for the Damned 346
Chapter 27 Mr Frost Goes to Washington 358
Chapter 28 A Brief Shining Moment with the Kennedys 375
Chapter 29 Last Act on the Global Stage 390
Notes 404
Bibliography 429
Index 437
EULA 448

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.1.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Critical Biographies
• Reihe/Serie: Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 20th Century & Contemporary American Literature • A Further Range • American poetry • Amerikanische Literatur / 20. Jhd. u. zeitgenössische Werke • Amerikanische Literatur / 20. Jhd. u. zeitgenössische Werke • A Witness Tree • Edwin Arlington Robinson • Elinor White • Literature • Literaturwissenschaft • Modernist poetry • New England • New Hampshire • Robert Frost • Swedenborgian Church • the road not taken • The Sound of Trees • Thomas Hardy • W.B. Yeats
• ISBN-10: 1-119-10367-3 / 1119103673
• ISBN-13: 978-1-119-10367-7 / 9781119103677