On Frost: The Best from American Literature(Best from American Literature)

From 1929 to the latest issue, American Literature has been the foremost journal expressing the findings of those who study our national literature. The jouranl has published the best work of literary historians, critics, and bibliographers, ranging from the founders of the discipline to the best current critics and researchers. The longevity of this excellence lends a special distinction to the articles in American Literature. Presented in order of their first appearance, the articles in each volume constitute a revealing record of developing insights and important shifts of critical emphasis. Each article has opened a fresh line of inquiry, established a fresh perspective on a familiar topic, or settled a question that engaged the interest of experts.

Table of Contents:
Robert Frost and the Sound of Sense (1937) / Robert S. Newdick The Humanistic Idealism of Robert Frost (1941) / Hyatt Howe Waggoner Robert Frost's Asides on his Poetry (1948) / Reginald L. Cook Frost on Frost: The Making of Poems (1956) / Reginald L. Cook The Unity of Frost's Masques (1960) / W.R. irwin Religion in Robert Frost's Poetry: The Play for Self-Possession (1964) / Anna K. Juhnke Frost's Poetry of Fear (1971) / Eben Bass Robert Frost's Dramatic Principle of "Oversound" (1973) / Tom Vander Ven Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens: "What to Make of a Diminished Thing" (1975) / Todd M. Lieber Robert Frost: "The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows" (1981) / Priscilla M. Paton Frost's Synedochism (1986) / George F. Bagby, Jr. Comparing Conceptions: Frost and Eddington, Heisenberg, and Bohr (1987) / Guy Rotella "The Place Is the Asylum": Women and Nature in Robert Frost's Poetry (1987) / Katherine Kearns Frost and Modernism (1988) / Robert Kern "The Lurking Frost": Poetic and Rhetoric in "Two Tramps in Mud Time" (1988) / Walter Jost The Resentments of Robert Frost (1990) / Frank Lentricchia

Review :
"The journal American Literature was founded in 1929 and since that time has regularly published important articles on the study of literature in the United States. Many of the articles that appeared in the journal have, in fact, become the ‘standard view’ or ‘the final word’ on a particular literary subject. . . . The series will be an important acquisition for every college library." - Choice “The articles in each volume are presented in the order of their first appearance in American Literature, and each opens a fresh line of inquiry, establishes a fresh perspective on a familiar topic, or settles a question that engaged the interest of experts. The selections are the most enduring work still useful for the study and teaching of important literary figures, or of an intellectual movement, motif, or genre. They represent the full range of thought from the scholarship that created the discipline and upon which much of the current work rests.” -Dorys Crow Grover, Western American Literature