9780813921112 - Going by Contraries: Robert Frost's Conflict with Science (Under the Sign of Nature) von Hass, Robert Bernard (4 Ergebnisse)

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Gebunden. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorRobert Bernard Hass is Assistant Professor of English at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.KlappentextrnrnOne of the most vexing problems facing American modernist poets was how to find a place fo.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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 in his mother's peculiar blend of Emersonian and Swedenborgian mysticism, and already inclined by age sixteen toward a career in poetry, Frost not only saw his religious belief shattered by Darwin's theory of natural selection but also recognized that poetry, in the wake of stunning scientific accomplishment, was slowly losing to science what was left of its cultural authority. With both designer and purpose absent from the post-Darwinian world, the old religious orders appeared trivial, and humankind found itself dislodged from the center of the natural order. This view of nature, coupled with a series of debilitating personal tragedies, plunged Frost into a spiritual crisis, which he surmounted by writing poetry.