Criticism > Contemporary Literary Criticism > Frost, Robert (Vol. 13) - Amy Lowell

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AMY LOWELL

Mr. Frost is only expatriated in a physical sense. Living in England he is, nevertheless, saturated with New England. For not only is his work New England in subject, it is so in technique. No hint of European forms has crept into it. It is certainly the most American volume of poetry which has appeared for some time. I use the word American in the way it is constantly employed by contemporary reviewers, to mean work of a color so local as to be almost photographic….

The thing which makes Mr. Frost's work remarkable is the fact that he has chosen to write it as verse. We have been flooded for twenty years with New England stories in prose…. [No hint of humor] appears in "North of Boston." And just because of the lack of it, just because its place is taken by an irony, sardonic and grim, Mr. Frost's book reveals a disease which is eating into the vitals of our New England life, at least in its rural communities. (p. 18)

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1. Introduction
2. Amy Lowell
3. Mark Van Doren
4. Louis Untermeyer
5. John Ciardi
6. Lawrence Thompson
7. Richard Eberhart
8. Randolph Perazzini
9. Robert B. Thompson
10. Laurence Goldstein
11. Copyright