... they reveal about Bishop’s methods of revision in order to make judgments about the relative successes of the posthumous poems. Many of the authors cited in the essays are not included in the bibliography. Jeff Westover 349 iii  Robert Frost Harvard University Press has published the first of four...

... writers reflects the widespread integration of formalist close readings with ques- tions of cultural history. The year’s work includes a new biography of Robert Frost’s connection to feminine sentimental and regional tradi- tions, and a study of Wallace Stevens’s experimental poetics. Two figures from...

... attention is paid to the lives and works of Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, and the writers of the Harlem Renaissance, especially Langston Hughes, and two biographies of Edna St. Vincent Millay shed light on that charismatic poet’s personality and career. Gender issues remain a popular focus, as does...

... amplified the use of still life, one wonders why these poets are singled out, when other clearly significant figures, including Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, and Robert Frost, produced work that also fits her definition. (Costello specifically rules out the Objectivist poets...

... that critics make creative choices in the way they stage books and essays. Walter Jost, for example, divides his excellent Rhetorical Investigations (Virginia) into two parts or “books” that represent two “parents” (or are they really threephilosophy and rhetoric on one side and Frost...

... and Wallace Stevens, have accounted for approximately (allowing for multiple-author studies) three books per year; Robert Frost was the subject of two books per year, and Marianne Moore, H.D., and W. H. Auden one book. This year is unusual because there is no book from an American publisher exclusively...

... below.) Natalie Gerber sets out to disentangle competing claims regard- ing sound among Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Robert Frost in Beyond Meaning: Di erent Fates of Some Modern- ist Poets Investments of Belief in Sound, pp. in Ben Glaser and Jonathan Culler, ed., Critical...

... of Warren, Tate, and Davidson. Books on Frost’s poetry reread him in context. Even Wallace Stevens is viewed through the critical lens of social and geographical location, and he and Auden are also located within a poststructuralist reading that revises their relationship to culture. While many...

... collection of the correspondence among Sigmund Freud, H.D., Winifred Bryher, and the members of their ‘‘circle Critics continue to pay a good deal of attention to Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens, while interest in H.D., Marianne Moore, and Robert Penn Warren is definitely waxing. Callaloo celebrates...

... it might have beyond the domain of its first use, then “improvisation” passes that test. Milton A. Cohen’s Beleaguered Poets and Leftist Critics: Stevens, Cum- mings, Frost, and Williams in the 1930s (Alabama) revisits the political and aesthetic demands on artists that arose in that period...

... imaginative literature much less than 394 Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s ever before, and that drop is connected with declining involvement in public life. No wonder that Meg Schoerke in ‘‘ ‘A Diminished Thing’: Frost’s Place in Contemporary Poetry’’ laments that Frost...

.... By the end of the chapter, Blasing is able to follow Stevens even into the grandest imaginable claim for poetic sound; in “The Large Red Man Reading,” recall, Stevens imagines even the ghosts returning to earth to hear phrases read aloud. iii  Robert Frost While the year brought strong readings...

... of scientific discourse to eviscerate the authority of artistic claims about the nature of conscious- ness at the same time that it recapitulates the traditional epistemological inferiority of women’s writing.” vi  Robert Frost One would have assumed that by now we fully understood Robert Frost’s...

... of its significance for him, and intimates its significance for readers of his poems as well. iv  Robert Frost Robert Faggen’s edition of The Notebooks of Robert Frost (Harvard), in which Frost’s notebooks are now presented in their entirety for the first time, supplements Frost’s published...

... discussions of Robert Frost (“Mending Wall William Carlos Williams (“The Crimson Cycla- men and Langston Hughes (“Theme for English B As Morris explains in his introduction, the book developed in response to his teaching of modern poetry. His emphasis on the dialogic character of lyric and his clear...

..., and Niedecker’s New Goose reflects a similar WPA ethos, though Niedecker’s aesthetics are quite different. The same may be said of Robert Frost’s “Paul’s Wife,” a wonderfully individuated treatment of the Paul Bunyan story. iii  Elizabeth Bishop Frances Leviston’s “Mothers and Marimbas in ‘The Bight...

... a metapoetic commentary on sonnet history in her poem. iv Robert Frost Henry Hart synthesizes and extends the work of other biographers in a new critical biography, The Life of Robert Frost (Blackwell, 2017). Among other things he provides important information about Frost s New England heritage, showing how...

... she can rep- resent nature that does “violence” to language alone, leaving its object integral and unconsumed. viii  Robert Frost and Hart Crane Although there were comparatively few articles and no monographs exclusively dedicated to the poetry of Frost or Crane in 2005...

... pages from an explication of Robert Frost’s “Design” to an analysis of William Carlos Williams’s “The Red Wheelbarrow” to a discussion of the Turner thesis. A spate of student companions to individual authors or works tar- geted to the high school market also appears this year, though many...

... Bidart, who needed to tell Schwartz that he felt disappointed that Frost’s poems weren’t holding up as he was reading through them in the brand-new The Poetry of Robert Frost, ed. Edward Connory Latham, the first posthumous volume to collect the poems from all Frost’s books. Bidart questioned...