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Robert Frost, romantic. (poet)

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From: Twentieth Century Literature
Date: 19961222
Author:Liebman, Sheldon W.

A substantial number of poet Robert Frost's critics considered him a non-romantic lyricist even if they are in consensus that he was raised in the romantic tradition. An analysis of his poetry indicates that Frost was neither an escapist, a nihilist or a pragmatist but rather a romantic who believed that truth and beauty are discovered in reality and are given form when thinker and artist permit experience to complete itself.

Although Frost once called himself a romantic, he usually used the word pejoratively.(1) In a letter to Louis Untermeyer in 1915, for example, he referred to Edgar ...

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