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1 online resource (192 pages) |
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface: Raking the Leaves Away; 1. Directives; PART ONE: Dickinson, Etc.; 2. Dangling Conversation; 3. One Hand Clapping; 4. Designs; 5. Roads and Paths; PART TWO: The Thorosian Poem; 6. Education by Metaphor; 7. Bonfires; 8. Economy; 9. Smoke; 10. Solitary Singer; 11. Swinging; PART THREE: Mainly Emerson; 12. Nature's Gold; 13. Linked Analogies; 14. Dominion; 15. Substantiation; PART FOUR: Coda; 16. Tributaries; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
""A poem is best read in the light of all the other poems ever written."" So said Robert Frost in instructing readers on how to achieve poetic literacy. George Monteiro's newest book follows that dictum to enhance our understanding of Frost's most valuable poems by demonstrating the ways in which they circulate among the constellations of great poems and essays of the New England Renaissance. Monteiro reads Frost's own poetry not against ""all the other poems ever written"" but in the light of poems and essays by his precursors, particularly Emerson, Thoreau, and Dickinson. Familiar poems such |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 -- Knowledge -- New England
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Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 -- Sources
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Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 fast |
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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American literature -- New England -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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American literature
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Intellectual life
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New England -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
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New England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Sources
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813157016 |
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0813157013 |
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1322598193 |
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9781322598192 |
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