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Robert Frost's Visionary Gift - Mining and Minding the Wonder of Unexpected Supply (Hardcover)
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Robert Frost's Visionary Gift - Mining and Minding the Wonder of Unexpected Supply (Hardcover)
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In Robert Frost's Visionary Gift: Mining and Minding the Wonder of
Unexpected Supply, William F. Zak provides groundbreaking analysis
to well over one hundred of Frost's lyrics, considering each poem
as integral to the poet's singular "constellation of intention."
Beyond biography, this book offers extended, close readings of
Frost's oeuvre, resulting in a case built up from deftly examined
particulars. Zak discusses how the pastoral mode Frost adopts is no
depleted, homespun idiom retreating from modernism's complexities,
but a self-conscious determination to assume the mantle of his
predecessors (Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson, and
Thoreau) so central to the pastoral inheritance directing his
thought. Frost's version of pastoral represents no escape from
life's stresses, but the most constructive and life-sustaining
means to address life's struggles 'head on': that is (as Frost
declared) to "take life by the throat" in song in order to 'see
what we're made of.' A revaluation of Frost's major lyrics, this
book makes a case for Frost as America's preeminent philosophical
poet. The unfortunate effect of Frost's early detractors' claim
that he was merely an ironic and equivocal anecdotalist has for too
long relegated his work to the second tier of the modernist poetic
pantheon. There was never anything disparately occasional nor
self-protectively detached about his ambition; for him "if poetry
isn't understanding all, the whole world, then it isn't worth
anything." Our illuminations may be but "specks," but they
nonetheless remain "considerable," evidence of a graced
re-source-fullness abounding within us, granting us "our place
among infinities." Lit by 'consideration's' illuminations-both of
mind and heart-we remain, happily, free to "make snug in the
infinite" darkness within and without us. This study reconfirms
Robert Graves' exalted claim for Frost as the "first American poet
who could be honestly reckoned a master poet by world standards."
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