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"Wise old Vergil says in one of his Georgics, 'Praise large farms, stick to small ones,'" Robert Frost said. "Twenty acres are just about enough." Frost started out as a school teacher living the rural life of a would-be farmer, and later turned to farming full time when he bought a place of his own. After a sojourn in England where his first two books were published to critical acclaim, he returned to New England, acquired a new farm and became a rustic for much of the rest of his life.
Frost claimed that all of his poetry was farm poetry. His deep admiration for Virgil's Georgics, or poems of rural life, inspired the creation of his own New England "georgics," his answer to the haughty 20th-century modernism that seemed certain to define the future of Western poetry. Like the "West-Running Brook" in his poem of the same name, Frost's poetry can be seen as an embodiment of contrariness.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Poetry of Agriculture
2. All Legends Are Local
3. The Poet's Facts
4. His Metaphysical Sonnet
5. An Occupation Gone
6. Adam's Curse
7. The Passing Glimpse
8. Solitary Griefs
9. An Art of the Possible
10. His Best Bid for Fame
11. Crowe Ransom
12. Axe and Helve
13. A Single Peel
14. Poem / Play
15. Nothing Gold Can Stay
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
