
Named an Outstanding Academic Book by Choice magazine, The Ordeal of Robert Frost depicts Frost as a thoroughly contemporary poet, dynamically engaged--in his own way--with the developments of literary modernism and American cultural criticism and with the social and political...

Presents a literary study that seeks to place Robert Frost as an important literary figured engaged in a dynamic relationship with modern literature and his time. Placing Frost's critical concerns within literary theory, this book explores the poet's struggles with the vocation...