The contemplative poetry of Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, and Yvor Winters
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The contemplative poetry of Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, and Yvor Winters
(Studies in comparative literature, v. 45)
Edwin Mellen Press, c2002
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Bibliography: p. [245]-255
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Description
This study challenges the entrenched view that 20th-century American poetry is essentially Emersonian. It examines the current critical debates, outlines assumptions about knowledge, morality and poetry that lay behind the pursuits of these three poets defines and lists the chief characteristics of "contemplative poetry" and examines the poems in depth.
Table of Contents
- "But this we know, if we know anything" - the conditional contemplation of Edwin Arlington Robinson
- "I am not here to urge anything" - the foreshortened contemplation of Robert Frost
- "With the firm mind for gain" - the protective contemplation of Yvor Winter.
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