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Robert Frost's Political Body (Hardcover)
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Robert Frost's Political Body (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in American Literature and Culture
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A provocative new study that identifies a deep structure -- that of
the political body -- in Frost's poetry. In Robert Frost's poetry
lives the figure of an authoritative public body: a physical, human
body that personifies classical liberalism. A deep structure, it
manifests itself in his images, the characterization of his
speakers, their tones of voice, and -- most crucially -- in his
sense of poetry's appropriate scope. To glimpse this political
body, Grzegorz Kosc interrogates the poet's views on a number of
subjects never explored by Frost criticism: Maya monumental art;
Shelley's bodies of sensibility and martyrdom; the bodies of US
presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft; the
association of radical liberalism with bodily deformation; the
ulteriority of physical behavior; the popularity of statuettes that
supplanted traditional, monumental sculptures of political leaders.
For Frost, all these yielded important clues to the writing of a
good poem, which had to have the features of a well-shaped,
self-disciplined, and stoic body. The final chapter explores the
images of Frost's own body used for the frontispieces of the
reprint editions of his poetry, images that are the symbols of
Frost's aesthetics. Hence the book's title, which not only points
to the central structure of Frost's poetry but also suggests that
the poet envisioned his own portrait as illustrating the body of
political power underlying his aesthetics. Grzegorz Kosc is
Assistant Professor at the University of Lodz and the University of
Warsaw, Poland. He is former President of the Robert Frost Society.
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