...Arthur M. Sampley Frost Centennial Essays . Compiled by the Committee on the Frost Centennial of the University of Southern Mississippi . Jackson : University Press of Mississippi . Pp. xii , 610 . $17.50 . Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Book Reviews 139 twentieth...

...Louis A. Renza Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered . By Pritchard William H. . New York : Oxford University Press , 1984 . Pp. xix , 286 . $15.95 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 303 complain of the unkindness of harsh judgements shouldn t engage...

... by Myerson Joel . Pp. xvi , 289 . $18.50 . Critical Essays on Jonathan Edwards . Edited by Scheick William J. . Pp. xxv , 310 . $25.00 . Robert Frost: Studies of the Poetry . Edited by Harris Kathryn Gibbs . Boston : G. K. Hall . 1980 . Pp. xvii , 196 . $18.50 . G. K...

...Frank Lentricchia Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing . By Poirier Richard . New York : Oxford University Press , 1977 . Pp. xvii , 322 . $11.95 . Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 Book Reviews 127 This romantic episode, with its operetta trappings, has more rele­...

...Arthur M. Sampley Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 The Myth and the Quest: The Stature of Robert Frost Arthur M. Sampley How great is a poet who has no consistent vision of man s place in the universe? What are we to think of one who adopts the tone of a seer and yet...

...Arthur M. Sampley Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 The Tensions of Robert Frost Arthur M. Satnpley Spin a coin and it falls heads or tails. But hardly for Robert Frost. For him the coin is always in the air, or if he does reveal the top­ most side, it is in the act of falling...

...Arthur M. Sampley Robert Frost: The Early Years, 1874-1915 . By Thompson Lawrance . New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston , 1966 . Pp. xxvi , 641 . $12.50 . Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Book Reviews 269 dimension of warfare. His criticism turns out...

...Robert S. Newdick Copyright © 1939 by Duke University Press 1939 ROBERT FROST LOOKS AT WAR ROBERT S. NEWDICK RECENTLY A VIGOROUS contemporary critic and thorough­ going champion of Robert Frost, Bernard De Voto, noted with satisfaction that W. H. Auden and C. Day Lewis, in their prefaces...

...George Core Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 Robert Frost and Sidney Cox: Forty Years of Friendship . Edited by Evans William R. . Hanover : University Press of New England , 1981 . Foreword by Cox James M. . Pp. xviii , 298 . $17.50 . 228 The South...

...Harry R. Stevens Life on the Upper Susquehanna 1783-1860 . By Frost James Arthur . New York : King’s Crown Press , 1951 . Pp. ix , 172 . $2.75 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 192 The South Atlantic Quarterly of the birth of Joaquim Nabuco. It was timed...

...Marion Montgomery The Dimensions of Robert Frost . By Cook Reginald L. . New York : Rinehart & Company, Inc. , 1958 . Pp. xii , 241 . $3.95 . Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 Book Reviews 331 tunate impression is made that he expects to conclude his love...

...Marion Montgomery Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 ROBERT FROST AND HIS USE OF BARRIERS: MAN m NATURE TOWARD GOD Marion Montgomery i THE CASUAL reader of Frost s poetry is likely to think of Frost as a nature poet in the tradition of Wordsworth. In a sense, nature is his subject...

...Floyd C. Watkins Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 Going and Coming Back: Robert Frost s Religious Poetry Floyd C. Watkins Only saints never waver, and even atheists have been known to change their minds in places other than foxholes. The religious im­ pulse of some poets like...

...John Oliver Perry The Dialogue of Voices in Robert Frost s Poems John Oliver Perry I One could argue with Harold Bloom1 that Robert Frost did not struggle seriously enough with his precursors, for the voices of Emerson, Browning, Whitman, and Shelley echo through long and short passages and deep...

...William Mulder Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 FREEDOM AND FORM: ROBERT FROST S DOUBLE DISCIPLINE William Mulder ROBERT FROST believes there are only two ways of coming close to poetry: by writing it and by reading it. Critics may come armed like the boys and bad hunters...

...John T. Ogilvie Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 FROM WOODS TO STARS: A PATTERN OF IMAGERY IN ROBERT FROST S POETRY John T, Ogilvie Leaves are all my darker mood i TOGETHER with Birches, Mending Wall, The Road Not Taken, After Apple-Picking, and a dozen or so other...

...Bayrd Still The Shaping of Urban Society: A History of City Forms and Functions . By Roebuck Janet . New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons , 1974 . Pp. 256 . $8.95 . Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 140 The South Atlantic Quarterly poems of Frost. The afterword...

... in the appended notes when none are given in the text? DUKE UNIVERSITY HERMAN SALINGER The Dimensions of Robert Frost. By Reginald L. Cook. New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1958. Pp. xii, 241. $3.95. The title of Professor Cook s study is, I think, unfortunate, since it suggests that here writes one...

... to read two biographies in order to gain a full sense of who that woman might have been. WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY KAREN B. MANN Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered. By William H. Pritchard. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. Pp. xix, 286. $15.95. William Pritchard s economically valuable...

... The South Atlantic Quarterly lect a thorough exploration of Frost in favor of a defense through attack upon the other poet or idea. For instance, the section entitled Parablist and Symbolist doesn t give one much to hold to concerning Frost as symbolist. It does say something of Frost s use of colloquial...