Robert Frost and feminine literary tradition

Description:

In spite of Robert Frost's continuing popularity with the public, the poet remains an outsider in the academy, where more "difficult" and "innovative" poets like T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound are presented as the great American modernists. Robert Frost and Feminine Literary Tradition considers the reason for this disparity, exploring the relationship among notions of popularity, masculinity, and greatness. Karen Kilcup reveals Frost's subtle links with earlier "feminine" traditions like "sentimental" poetry and New England regionalist fiction, traditions fostered by such well-known women precursors and contemporaries as Lydia Sigourney, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. She argues that Frost altered and finally obscured these "feminine" voices and values that informed his earlier published work and that to appreciate his achievement fully, we need to recover and acknowledge the power of his affective, emotional voice in counterpoint and collaboration with his more familiar ironic and humorous tones.

subjects: American poetry,  Literature,  Women and literature,  Knowledge,  Sex role in literature,  History and criticism,  Influence,  Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.),  Women,  Women authors,  Sentimentalism in literature,  Characters,  Authorship,  Sex differences,  History,  Différences entre sexes,  Femmes,  Frauenlyrik,  Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer,  Art d'écrire,  Frau,  Poésie américaine,  Histoire,  Sentimentalität,  Écrits de femmes américains,  Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature,  Frauenliteratur,  Personnages,  Histoire et critique,  Influence littéraire, artistique,  Femmes et littérature,  Sentimentalisme dans la littérature,  Lyrik,  Women in literature,  Frost, robert, 1874-1963,  American poetry, women authors,  Authorship, sex differences,  Knowledge and learning

Places: United States

Times: 20th century