Stopping by Woods
Robert Frost as New England Naturalist
Seiten
2018
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7318-9 (ISBN)
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7318-9 (ISBN)
Robert Frost gave us a vivid and compelling narrative of New England's changing environment, but few people are aware that the narrative exists. It can be hard to find because it is scattered through hundreds of poems, and comes to us in multiple voices with multiple moods and in no particular order. This book will help readers piece the narrative together.
Robert Frost was a practicing farmer, a skilled naturalist and one of America's best-loved poets. His body of work provides a vivid and compelling narrative of New England's changing environment--though it can be hard to discern when its parts are scattered through hundreds of different poems, voices and moods.
This book pieces together Frost's environmental commentary, examining his poems thematically and in a logical order. In them, homesteads are carved out of the forest, families make their living from an obdurate land, property is abandoned when it fails to sell, and plants and animals reclaim deserted farms.
Frost bemoaned the loss of people from the land but also celebrated the flora and fauna that thrived in fallow fields and empty barns.
Robert Frost was a practicing farmer, a skilled naturalist and one of America's best-loved poets. His body of work provides a vivid and compelling narrative of New England's changing environment--though it can be hard to discern when its parts are scattered through hundreds of different poems, voices and moods.
This book pieces together Frost's environmental commentary, examining his poems thematically and in a logical order. In them, homesteads are carved out of the forest, families make their living from an obdurate land, property is abandoned when it fails to sell, and plants and animals reclaim deserted farms.
Frost bemoaned the loss of people from the land but also celebrated the flora and fauna that thrived in fallow fields and empty barns.
Owen D.V. Sholes is a retired biology professor and the author of articles on ecology, environmental history, and the poetry of Robert Frost. He lives in Rutland, Massachusetts.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface: Why Would an Ecologist Write About Robert Frost?
Prologue: “Country things”
Introduction: “Like a pistil after the petals go”
Subduing the Land: “Teams that came by the stony road”
Farming: “The place’s name”
Seasons: “Brush the mow with the summer load”
Agrarian Diaspora: “From too much dwelling on what has been”
Ecological Succession: “They rejoiced in the nest they kept”
Life Cycles in a Resurgent Nature: “For them there was really nothing sad”
Conclusion: “Versed in country things”
Chapter Notes
Further Reading and Sources
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.11.2018 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | notes, bibliography, index |
| Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 254 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4766-7318-7 / 1476673187 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4766-7318-9 / 9781476673189 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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