Robert Frost : A Poet Both Provincial and Universal

Author

Myrna G. Carver, Fort Hays Kansas State College

Department

English

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Abstract

There is disagreement among the critics as to the classification under which Frost is to be placed. Some say that he is strictly a local poet because he deals so much with New England material. Others say that he is a universal poet; for, although he does write extensively of his own region, its climate, its characters, and its culture, he is, nevertheless, a universal poet who vests these local or provincial elements with meaning as broad in scope as the experience and thought of man. The purpose of this thesis, then, is to produce evidence presented by critics of each school and to interpret other poems which fit into the suggested categories, to show- that Robert Frost is a provincial and universal poet.

Keywords

Literary criticism, American literature, Robert Frost (1874-1963), Poetry, Influential people, Poets laureate

Advisor

Dr. Myrta E. McGinnis

Date of Award

Summer 1942

Document Type

Thesis

DOI

10.58809/XFLY6703

Recommended Citation

Carver, Myrna G., "Robert Frost : A Poet Both Provincial and Universal" (1942). Master's Theses. 357.
DOI: 10.58809/XFLY6703
Available at: https://scholars.fhsu.edu/theses/357

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