Eric Murphy Selinger

Jonathan N. Barron

Offers poems by twenty-six poets, along with the poets' commentary discussing various aspects of the poetry and addressing the question of what makes a poet's work particularly "Jewish."

Poems, Commentary, and Reflections

Jewish American Poetry

Bruce Meyer

Presents a representative catalog of the New Formalism, including a broad spectrum and wide and diverse range of poets and poetries associated with the New Formalism, an eclectic movement with a commitment to meter, fixed rhyme schemes, and poetic forms.

New Formalist Poets

The Wordsworthian Tradition in 20th Century American Poetry : Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, James Wright, and a Few Other Poets

"Another Faith" (Prelude Bk.II.435)

Earl J. Wilcox

In Roads Not Taken, Earl J. Wilcox and Jonathan N. Barron bring a new freshness and depth to the study of one of America's greatest poets. While some critics discounted Frost as a poet without technical skill, rhetorical complexity, or intellectual depth, over the past decade scholars have begun to view Robert Frost's work from many new perspectives. Critical hermeneutics, cultural studies, feminism, postmodernism, and textual editing all have had their impact on readings of the poet's life and work. This collection of essays is the first to account for the variety of these new perceptions.

Rereading Robert Frost

Roads Not Taken

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” – a voice that would come to dominate American poetry as few others have.

Jonathan N. Barron

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