Going by Contraries
Robert Frost's Conflict with Science
One of the most vexing problems facing American modernist poets was how to find a place for poetry and religion in a culture that considered science its most reliable source of truth. By the time Robert Frost began writing, the Emersonian concept of nature as an analogue for a benevolent deity had been replaced among the scientifically educated by the view that nature's mechanisms were based solely upon accident, competition, and survival, Immersed in his mother's peculiar blend of Emersonian and Swedenborgian mysticism, and already inclined by age sixteen toward a career in poetry, Frost not only saw his religious belief shattered by Darwin'…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8139-2112-9
- EAN: 9780813921129
- Produktnummer: 1740789
- Verlag: University of Virginia Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm 382 g
- Gewicht: 382
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
Über den Autor
Robert Bernard Hass is Assistant Professor of English at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.
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