This study examines several unexplored aspects of the poetry of Robert Frost, one of the most widely read and studied American poets, and shows how they contribute to the reader's experience and modernism in general.

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"A thorough treatment of the oft-neglected postmodern strains of Frost's poetry. Such a book on Frost's linguistic play is long overdue." - Robert Bernard Hass, author of Going by Contraries: Robert Frost's Conflict with Science and former President of the Robert Frost Society

"O'Brien's attention to genre, to Frost's elusive and 'tricky' philosophy makes this book not only timely but also necessary to the current discussion on Frost. . .this book will be of great interest to all scholars and students of modernism generally." - Jonathan Barron, Associate Professor of English, University of Southern Mississippi and author of New Formalist Poets

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TIMOTHY O'BRIEN is Professor of English at the US Naval Academy, USA.

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Book Title: Names, Proverbs, Riddles, and Material Text in Robert Frost
Authors: Timothy D. O’Brien
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230109896
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-10265-1Published: 18 August 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-28705-5Published: 28 October 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-10989-6Published: 19 July 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 210
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

The Quest for a Name in “Frost”

Proverbs and the Quest for Certainty

The Riddle of It All

The Material Text as Witness Tree

Coda

Back Matter

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