Robert Frost

 

 

Letter to Sidney Cox

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The Bungalow
Beaconsfield
Bucks
Jan 19 1914

 

[...] The living part of a poem is the intonation entangled somehow in the syntax idiom and meaning of a sentence. It is only there for those who have heard it previously in conversation. It is not for us in any Greek or Latin poem because our ears have not been filled with the tones of Greek and Roman talk. It is the most volatile and at the same time important part of poetry. It goes and the language becomes a dead language the poetry dead poetry. With it go the accents the stresses the delays that are not the property of vowels and syllables but that are shifted at will with the sense. Vowels have length there is no denying. But the accent of sense supersedes all other accent overrides and sweeps it away.

 

 

 

 

Erstdruck und Druckvorlage

The Letters of Robert Frost. Volume I. 1886-1920.
Edited by Donald Sheehy, Mark Richardson, Robert Faggen.
Cambridge (Mass.): The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2014, S. 167-168.

Unser Auszug: S. 167.

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Werkverzeichnis

Frost, Robert: The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer.
New York u.a.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1963.

Frost, Robert: The Notebooks of Robert Frost.
Hrsg. von Robert Faggen.
Cambridge (Mass.): The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2007.

Frost, Robert: The Collected Prose of Robert Frost.
Hrsg. von Mark Richardson.
Cambridge (Mass.): The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2007.

Frost, Robert: The Letters of Robert Frost.
Volume I. 1886-1920.
Hrsg. von Donald Sheehy, Mark Richardson, Robert Faggen.
Cambridge (Mass.): The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2014.

 

 

 

Literatur

Brandmeyer, Rudolf: Poetiken der Lyrik: Von der Normpoetik zur Autorenpoetik. In: Handbuch Lyrik. Theorie, Analyse, Geschichte. Hrsg. von Dieter Lamping. 2. Aufl. Stuttgart 2016, S. 2-15.

Faggen, Robert (Hrsg.): The Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost. Cambridge 2001.

Hoffman, Tyler: Robert Frost and the Politics of Poetry. Hanover u.a. 2001.

Jackson, Sarah R.: Made in London. The Robert Frost and Ezra Pound Connection. In: Worcester Review 15.1-2 (1994), S. 108-121.

Juten, Nancy L. u.a. (Hrsg.): The Robert Frost Encyclopedia. Westport (Conn.) 2001.

Kalaidjian, Walter (Hrsg.): The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry. Cambridge 2015.

Marcus, Laura: Rhythmical Subjects. The Measures of the Modern. Oxford 2023.

Matthews-Schlinzig, Marie I. u.a. (Hrsg.): Handbuch Brief. Von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart. 2 Bde. Berlin u. Boston 2020.

Richardson, Mark: The Ordeal of Robert Frost. The Poet and His Poetics. Urbana (Ill.) 1997.

Smith, Gavin: Robert Frost's Theory of Poetic Experience. In: Robert Frost Review 22 (2012, Fall), S. 58-76

 

 

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