Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin

by Robert Faggen

Book Overview

Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin gives us a new and compelling portrait of the poet-thinker as a modern Lucretius--moved to examine the questions raised by Darwin, and willing to challenge his readers with the emerging scientific notions of what it meant to be human.
Combining both intellectual history and detailed analysis of Frost's poems, Robert Faggen shows how Frost's reading of Darwin reflected the significance of science in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472087479
• ISBN13: 9780472087471
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"