Going by Contraries: Robert Frost's Conflict with Science
(Part of the Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0813921120
ISBN13:9780813921129
Release Date:May 2002
Publisher:University of Virginia Press
Length:220 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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