Robert Frost in Context

Mark Richardson is Professor of English at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. He is the author of The Ordeal of Robert Frost (1997); co-editor, with Richard Poirier, of Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays (1995); and editor of The Collected Prose of Robert Frost (2007). He is also co-editor of a forthcoming three-volume edition of Frost's letters.

• Editor's preface Mark Richardson; Part I. Frost in Stylistic Contexts: 1. The fate of the Frost speaker Margery Sabin; 2. The figure Frost's prose makes Joseph M. Thomas and Mark Richardson; 3. Frost and sports: pitching into poetry Alec Marsh; 4. Frost as a man of letters Robert Faggen; Part II. Literary Historical Contexts: 5. Robert Frost's design Paul Muldoon; 6. The lay of the land in Frost's Steeple Bush Jay Parini; 7. Frost and the modern narrative poem Dana Gioia; 8. Frost and modernism John Cooper; 9. Frost and modern drama Yasuko Shiojiri; 10. Frost and the 'Masque' tradition David John Chandler; 11. Frost and anthologies Mark Scott; 12. 'Measuring myself against all creation': Frost and pastoral Robert Bernard Hass; 13. Thomas Aquinas and The Voyage of the Beagle: Frost's reading David Tutein; Part III. Philosophical and Religious Contexts: 14. Frost and pragmatism Jonathan Levin; 15. Frost and the provocation of religion James Barszcz; 16. Frost and the Bible Robert Faggen; Part IV. Political and Historical Contexts: 17. Frost's political identity Steven Axelrod; 18. Frost and the Great Depression David Evans; 19. The post-Reconstruction Frost Mark Richardson; 20. Frost and the First World War Tim Kendall; 21. Frost and the Second World War Grzegorz Kosc; 22. Frost and the Cold War Steven Axelrod; Part V. Geo-Political Contexts: 23. 'What became of New England?': Frost and rural sociology Donald Sheehy; 24. Figures of the tourist and guide in Frost Marit MacArthur; 25. Frost and a 'native America' Eric Anderson; 26. Reading Frost environmentally Thomas Bailey; Part VI. Biographical Contexts: 27. Frost and the problem of biography William Pritchard; 28. The Derry years of Robert Frost Lesley Lee Francis; 29. All the difference: Robert Frost in England, 1912–15 Sean Street; Part VII. Vocational Contexts: 30. Frost and education Mark Scott; 31. Frost and the institutionalization of poetry Mark Richardson; 32. The artifactual Frost: the book trade, collectors, and fine printing Pat Alger; 33. Robert Frost in the magazines Jonathan N. Barron; 34. Meet the press: Frost as pundit Lisa Seale; 35. Frost and the public performance of poetry Tyler Hoffman; Part VIII. Scientific and Psychiatric Contexts: 36. Frost and astronomy Henry Atmore; 37. Frost and 'The future of man' Henry Atmore; 38. 'Everybody's sanity': metaphor and mental health in Frost Don Sheehy; Part IX. Frost and Gender: 39. Education by poetry: Frost, women, and children Karen Kilcup; 40. Frost and heroic normativity: form and sexuality Paul Morrison; Further reading; Index.

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