Belief and uncertainty in the poetry of Robert Frost
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Belief and uncertainty in the poetry of Robert Frost
University Press of New England, 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]) and indexes
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Description
Robert Pack's lifelong delight in Robert Frost's intricate, beautiful, and profound poetry shines through in the essays in this book. He confronts such broad themes as mourning, inheritance, nature, and the imagination, bringing to bear historical, psychological, Darwinian, and close-textual-reading interpretive approaches. Chapter one sets Frost's work in the tradition of nature writing, from the Book of Genesis through modern American ecological works. Chapter two examines the profound influences of the Book of Job, Darwin, and evolutionary theory on Frost's thinking. There follow chapters that structurally and philosophically compare Wordsworth's "Michael" to Frost's "Wild Grapes," focusing on the themes of inheritance, grieving, and the potency of the imagination. The reader encounters Frost as teacher and preacher, Frost's idea of how beliefs are affirmed, the simultaneous representation of adult memory and immediate childhood sensation, and the underlying duality of place and nothingness, which forms the existential background for his "stay against confusion"-the consoling purpose of Frost's poetic art.
Table of Contents
"Foreword by John R. Franke
Acknowledgments
Introduction""We also know there are known unknowns""
Chapter 1""Where is the Life we have lost in living?""
Chapter 2""The unexamined life is not worth living""
Chapter 3""Transcendent mystery and glorious immediacy""
Chapter 4""We have to become People of the Story""
Chapter 5""A hell of a problem""
Chapter 6""The wayfaring people of God""
Chapter 7""A communion corresponding to the Trinity""
Chapter 8""Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense""
Chapter 9""I am a bishop for you, I am a Christian with you""
Chapter 10""What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem?""
Chapter 11""A wager on transcendence""
Chapter 12""Earth's crammed with heaven""
Chapter 13""For anything to be real it must be local""
Chapter 14""Now I know in part, then I shall know fully""
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