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Robert Frost's Poetry of Rural Life

by George Monteiro

Frost, robert, 1874-1963American poetry, history and criticism, 20th centuryCountry life in literatureFarm life in literatureCriticism and interpretation

"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." This body of work can be seen as his answer to the haughty 20th-century modernism that seemed certain to define the future of Western poetry"--

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