Preface: why would an ecologist write about Robert Frost? -- Prologue: "Country things" -- Introduction: "Like a pistil after the petals go" -- Subduing the land: "Teams that came by the stony road" -- Farming: "The place's name" -- Seasons: "The summer load" -- Agrarian diaspora: "Too much dwelling on what has been" -- Ecological succession: "They rejoiced in the nest they kept" -- Life cycles in a resurgent nature: "For them there was really nothing sad" -- Conclusion: "Versed in country things".
Summary:
""Robert Frost was a practicing farmer, a skilled naturalist and one of America's best-loved poets. This book pieces together Frost's environmental commentary, examining his poems thematically and in a logical order. Frost bemoaned the loss of people from the land but also celebrated the flora and fauna that thrived in fallow fields and empty barns"-- Provided by publisher.
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