03608cam a2200469 4500 1951830806 TxAuBib 20250222120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780374715250 0374715254 B0D2BG51JT Amazon 796c2177-b59c-4670-877b-25d0ec7df2e3 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10682302 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Plunkett, Adam. Love and Need [Libby eBook] : The Life of Robert Frost's Poetry. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. great American poetry. stopping by the woods. literary nonfiction. Literary Criticism. the road not taken. two roads diverged. lawrance thompson. American Poetry. poet biography. new Hampshire. snowy evening. robert frost. new england. Biography. HTML:<p><b>Braiding together biography and criticism, Adam Plunkett challenges our understanding of Robert Frost's life and poetic legacy in a pathbreaking new work.<br /></b>By the middle of the twentieth century, Robert Frost was the best-loved poet in America. He was our nation's bard, simple and sincere, accompanying us on wooded roads and articulating our hopes and fears. After Frost's death, these cliches gave way to equally broad (though opposed) portraits sketched by his biographers, chief among them Lawrance Thompson. When the critic Helen Vendler reviewed Thompson's biography, she asked whether anyone could avoid the conclusion that Frost was a "monster."<br /> In <i>Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost's Poetry</i>, Adam Plunkett blends biography and criticism to find the truth of Frost's life—one that lies between the two poles of perception. Plunkett reveals a new Frost through a careful look at the poems and people he knew best, showing how the stories of his most important relationships,<br /> heretofore partly told, mirror dominant themes of Frost's enduring poetry: withholding and disclosure, privacy and intimacy. Not least of these relationships is the fraught, intense friendship between Frost and Thompson, the major biographer whose record of Frost Plunkett seeks to set straight.<br /> Moving through Frost's most important work and closest relationships with the attention to detail necessary to see familiar things anew, Plunkett offers an original interpretation of Frost's poetry, tracing Frost's distinctive achievement to an engagement with poetic tradition far deeper and more extensive than he ever let on. Frost invited his readers into a conversation like the one he sustained with his literary forebears, intimate and profound, yet Frost kept his private self at a remove. Here, Plunkett brings the two together—the poet and the poetry—and draws us back into conversation with America's poet.</p>. Biography & Autobiography. Literary Criticism. Nonfiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-02-22 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=796c2177-b59c-4670-877b-25d0ec7df2e3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=796c2177-b59c-4670-877b-25d0ec7df2e3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)