Robert Frost's Poetry of Rural Life

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Frost claimed that all of his poetry was farm poetry. His deep admiration for Virgil's Georgics, or poems of rural life, inspired the creation of his own New England georgics. This body of work can be seen as his answer to the haughty 20th-century modernism that seemed certain to define the future of Western poetry--; Provided by publisher. Brief Description: "Frost claimed that all of his poetry was farm poetry. His deep admiration for Virgil's Georgics, or poems of rural life, inspired the creation of his own New England "georgics." This body of work can be seen as his answer to the haughty 20th-century modernism that seemed certain to define the future of Western poetry"--

Contributor Bio:  Monteiro, George George Monteiro is Emeritus Professor of English and of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University.