Criticism > Contemporary Literary Criticism > Frost, Robert (Vol. 13) - Richard Eberhart

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RICHARD EBERHART

[The] personality of Robert Frost, the impact of his living presence, was known as inextricably bound up with his poetry. His mastery was also in what he would not do, in his recognition of what he could not do. (pp. 180-81)

If Poe showed a disintegrated personality, and if Emily Dickinson possessed one partly so, Robert Frost exhibited an integrated personality. He was integrated with the life of his times and his nation. He was integrated with nature because he began when man could feel a less urban sense of where man exists on the face of the earth and in relation to the universe…. Frost's poetry goes back to early American farm life, partaking of a pastoral feeling which, in turn, goes back to the Latin authors who formed his style. (p. 181)

While Frost was integrated with what might be termed the rural life of his times, and wrote a sort of elegant pastoral, there is a question whether in future his relevance to the whole of...

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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