Faggen, Robert (ed ) - Striving Towards BeingLetters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz (FSG, 1997)
pdf | 1.71 MB | English | Author :Robert Faggen (ed.) | 978-0674034662 | 2010 | Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

Book Description :

Robert Frost is one of the most widely read, welloved, and misunderstood of modern writers. In his day, he was alsan inveterate note-taker, penning thousands of intense aphoristithoughts, observations, and meditations in smalpocket pads and schootheme books throughout his life. These notebooks, transcribed and presented here in theientirety fothe first time, offeunprecedented insight intFrost's complex and often highly contradictory thinking about poetics, politics, education, psychology, science, and religion--his attitude toward Marxism, the New Deal, World War--as welas Yeats, Pound, Santayana, and WilliaJames. Covering a period frothe late 1890s tearly 1960s, the notebooks reveathe fulrange of the mind of one of America's greatest poets. Theidepth and complexity convey the restless and probing quality of his thought, and show how the unruliness of chaotimodernity was always just beneath his appearance of supreme poeticontrol.
Edited and annotated by Robert Faggen, the notebooks are cross-referenced tmarthematiconnections within these and Frost's othewritings, including his poetry, letters, and otheprose. This is a majonew addition tthe canon of Robert Frost's writings.

Category : | Poetry Literary Criticism, American Fiction Anthologies, American Literature