TY - BOOK AU - Monteiro,George TI - Robert Frost and the New England renaissanceGeorge Monteiro SN - 9780813157016 AV - PS3511 .R634 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - Lexington PB - The University Press of Kentucky KW - Frost, Robert, KW - American literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - New England KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface: Raking the Leaves Away; 1. Directives; PART ONE: Dickinson, Etc.; 2. Dangling Conversation; 3. One Hand Clapping; 4. Designs; 5. Roads and Paths; PART TWO: The Thorosian Poem; 6. Education by Metaphor; 7. Bonfires; 8. Economy; 9. Smoke; 10. Solitary Singer; 11. Swinging; PART THREE: Mainly Emerson; 12. Nature's Gold; 13. Linked Analogies; 14. Dominion; 15. Substantiation; PART FOUR: Coda; 16. Tributaries; Notes; Index; 2; b N2 - ""A poem is best read in the light of all the other poems ever written."" So said Robert Frost in instructing readers on how to achieve poetic literacy. George Monteiro's newest book follows that dictum to enhance our understanding of Frost's most valuable poems by demonstrating the ways in which they circulate among the constellations of great poems and essays of the New England Renaissance. Monteiro reads Frost's own poetry not against ""all the other poems ever written"" but in the light of poems and essays by his precursors, particularly Emerson, Thoreau, and Dickinson. Familiar poems such UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=938348&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -