TY - BOOK ID - 78071311 TI - Robert Frost and the New England renaissance PY - 2015 SN - 0813157013 9780813157016 1322598193 9781322598192 0813130778 PB - Lexington The University Press of Kentucky DB - UniCat KW - American literature KW - History and criticism. KW - Frost, Robert, KW - Frost, Robert Lee, KW - פראסט, ראבערט, KW - פרוסט, רוברט, KW - فروست ، روبرت KW - Фрост, Роберт, KW - Sources. KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Knowledge KW - New England. KW - New England KW - Intellectual life UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78071311 AB - ""A poem is best read in the light of all the other poems ever written."" So said Robert Frost in instructing readers on how to achieve poetic literacy. George Monteiro's newest book follows that dictum to enhance our understanding of Frost's most valuable poems by demonstrating the ways in which they circulate among the constellations of great poems and essays of the New England Renaissance.Monteiro reads Frost's own poetry not against ""all the other poems ever written"" but in the light of poems and essays by his precursors, particularly Emerson, Thoreau, and Dickinson. Familiar poems such ER -