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Robert Frost : The Poet As Philosopher by Peter J. Stanlis (2008, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRegnery Publishing
ISBN-101933859814
ISBN-139781933859811
eBay Product ID (ePID)67001230
Product Key Features
Number of Pages478 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameRobert Frost : the Poet As Philosopher
SubjectGeneral, Literary, Poetry
Publication Year2008
TypeTextbook
AuthorPeter J. Stanlis
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Reviews"Making good use of his decades-long friendship and correspondence with Frost, Stanlis traces Frost's influences and his approach to such thinkers as Darwin, the Huxleys, Lovejoy, Einstein, and innovators in disciplines ranging from the arts to education. This is essential reading for both scholars and students." - Book News, Peter Stanlis has written a book that meets the highest standards of literary scholarship and criticism. [It] will be among the best ever written about Robert Frost. - Chronicles ""'The height of all poetic thinking,' wrote Frost in 1931, is the 'attempt to say matter in terms of spirit and spirit in terms of matter.' Peter J. Stanlis has given us a full and penetrating account of the metaphysical dualism that underpinned all of Frost's thinking - about poetry, religion, society, even science. This is a marvelous, deep study of the man who was, many will be surprised to learn, one of the most cerebral poets that ever lived."" - John Derbyshire, "Stanlis, who knew and spoke with Frost on and off between 1939 and the poet’s death...is best known as the formidable scholar of 18th-century literature whose Edmund Burke and the Natural Law (1958) revolutionized our understanding of Burke. Now, in Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher, he has performed a similar task, producing a book that may well reshape our understanding of Frost....Amply footnoted, and buttressed by an impressive bibliography of secondary sources, Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher offers much-needed clarity on a man whose life and work have been too long shrouded in confusion. Stanlis has produced a landmark work that will prove essential to future readers who seek to understand Robert Frost." - James E. Person Jr., National Review, "Stanlis does not contend that Frost was a systematic philosopher....Rather he depicts him as someone who starts with certain perceptions about reality, a series of insights that he seeks to confirm through study and conversation and which he puts into verse that would become an honored part of the American literary heritage." -- Society Magazine, "Making good use of his decades-long friendship and correspondence with Frost, Stanlis traces Frost's influences and his approach to such thinkers as Darwin, the Huxleys, Lovejoy, Einstein, and innovators in disciplines ranging from the arts to education. This is essential reading for both scholars and students." -- Book News, "Stanlis, who knew and spoke with Frost on and off between 1939 and the poet's death...is best known as the formidable scholar of 18th-century literature whose Edmund Burke and the Natural Law (1958) revolutionized our understanding of Burke. Now, in Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher, he has performed a similar task, producing a book that may well reshape our understanding of Frost....Amply footnoted, and buttressed by an impressive bibliography of secondary sources, Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher offers much-needed clarity on a man whose life and work have been too long shrouded in confusion. Stanlis has produced a landmark work that will prove essential to future readers who seek to understand Robert Frost." -- James E. Person Jr., National Review, "Stanlis does not contend that Frost was a systematic philosopher....Rather he depicts him as someone who starts with certain perceptions about reality, a series of insights that he seeks to confirm through study and conversation and which he puts into verse that would become an honored part of the American literary heritage." - Society Magazine
SynopsisRobert Frost is by far the most celebrated major American poet of the twentieth century. But Frost was not just a powerful writer of popular lyric and narrative verse, argues Peter J. Stanlis. Rather, his work is deeply rooted in a complex philosophical dualism that opposes both idealistic monism and scientific positivism. Thoroughly informed by Stanlis' twenty-three-year friendship and correspondence with Frost, this volume is the first to deal with the poet's philosophy in a systematic manner., Robert Frost is by far the most celebrated major American poet of the twentieth century. In part, this is because his poetry seems, on the surface, to be so accessible, even homey. But Frost was not just a powerful writer of popular lyric and narrative verse, argues Peter J. Stanlis in this major contribution to American literary study and philosophy. Rather, his work is deeply rooted in a complex philosophical dualism that opposes both idealistic monism, centered in spirit, and scientific positivism, which posits that the universe can be understood as nothing but matter. In Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher , Stanlis shows how Frost's philosophical dualism of spirit and matter is perceived through metaphors and applied to science, religion, art, education, and society. He further argues that Frost's dualism provides a critique of the monistic forces that were instrumental in the triumph of twentieth-century totalitarianism. Thoroughly informed by his twenty-three year friendship and correspondence with Frost, Stanlis's landmark volume is the first attempt to deal with the poet's philosophy in a systematic manner. It will appeal not only to fans of Frost but to all who understand poetry as a form of revelation for understanding human nature., Robert Frost is by far the most celebrated major American poet of the twentieth century. This book argues that Frost was not just a powerful writer of popular lyric and narrative verse, rather, his work is deeply rooted in a complex philosophical dualism that opposes both idealistic monism and scientific positivism.
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