Frost’s Road Taken

According to the revived Robert Frost Society Newsletter, Frost is now more in the limelight than ever. By focusing on him first as a Romantic-Realist, Professor Fleissner shows Frost’s debt to major British Romantics, Victorians, as well as American poets (the latter being influences not generally known). Dr. Fleissner comes to terms with Frost as a spiritual writer, stressing his use of the Bible, and discusses a transcription of a Frost manuscript of a new poetic construct. Lastly the author provides an up-to-date account of the poet’s relation to multiculturalism in terms of ethnic issues. As the title is meant to convey, the book concerns not a journey assumed merely by a Frost devotee, but Robert Frost’s own road being taken, namely that originally traversed by the poet himself and now transformed into essay format.

The Author: Robert F. Fleissner is the author of ＂Dickens and Shakespeare; Resolved to Love: The 1592 Edition fo Henry Constable’s ’Diana’ Critically Considered; The Prince and the Professor; A Rose by Another Name: A Survey of Literary Flora from Shakespeare to Eco; Ascending the Prufrockian Stair: Studies in a Dissociated Sensibility＂ (Peter Lang, 1988); and ＂T.S. Eliot and the Heritage of Africa: The Magus and the Moor as Metaphor＂ (Peter Lang, 1992). He was also at Robert Frost’s Bread Loaf School of English two years to do graduate work.