How Robert Frost made realism matter /Jonathan N. Barron.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Robert Frost stood at the intersection of nineteenth-century romanticism and twentieth-century modernism and made both his own. Frost adapted the genteel values and techniques of nineteenth-century poetry, but Barron argues that it was his commitment to realism that gave him popular as well as scholarly appeal and created his enduring legacy. This highly researched consideration of Frost investigates early innovative poetry that was published in popular magazines from 1894 to 1915 and reveals a voice of dissent that anticipated "The New Poetry" --

The world that made Robert Frost : the genteels, their values, and their publications -- Realism and genteel publishing -- An intellectual finds his way : Robert Frost goes to school -- Robert Frost, realism, poetry, and American publishing of the 1890s : "My butterfly : an elegy," "The birds do thus" -- Discovering realism : Frost, 1897-99 -- Robert Frost's poetry of ideas, 1906-8 : "Trial by existence," "The lost faith," "A line-storm song," and "Across the Atlantic" -- Robert Frost's new poetic realism, 1909-10 : "Into mine own," "The flower boat" -- Coming into his own : Robert Frost, 1910-12 : "Reluctance" -- Robert Frost in England : A boy's will -- Robert Frost : public poet at last : "The death of the hired man" -- Inventing a new poetry : "A hundred collars," "The fear" -- Robert Frost, a realist in the magazines of modernism : "The housekeeper" and "The code" -- Poet of the new American poetry : North of Boston, "Putting in the seed" -- The American magazines of 1915 and the making of Robert Frost.

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