Toward Robert Frost: The Reader and the Poet

by Judith Oster

Book Overview

Every poem, Robert Frost declared, is an epitome of the great predicament, a figure of the will braving alien entanglements. This study considers what Frost meant by those entanglements, how he braved them in his poetry, and how he invited his readers to do the same. In the process it contributes significantly to a new critical awareness of Frost as a complex artist who anticipated postmodernism - a poet who invoked literary traditions and conventions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082031322X
• ISBN13: 9780820313221
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 9.2"