Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher. This item is unavailable.Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher

Robert Frost is by far the most celebrated major American poet of the twentieth century. But Frost was not just a powerful writer of popular lyric and narrative verse, argues Peter J. Stanlis. Rather, his work is deeply rooted in a complex philosophical dualism that opposes both idealistic monism and scientific positivism. Thoroughly informed by Stanlis' twenty-three-year friendship and correspondence with Frost, this volume is the first to deal with the poet's philosophy in a systematic manner.

Peter J. Stanlis is Distinguished Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at Rockford College. The author of Edmund Burke and the Natural Law, which appeared in 1955 and revolutionized the way Burke was viewed by scholars, he promised Frost in 1944 that he would someday write the best book about Frost's art and thought that he had it in him to write. Stanlis's previous monograph on Frost is titled Robert Frost: The Individual and Society.