{"product_id":"robert-frosts-poetry-of-rural-life","title":"Robert Frost's Poetry of Rural Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e   \"Wise old Vergil says in one of his Georgics, 'Praise large farms, stick to small ones,'\" Robert Frost said. \"Twenty acres are just about enough.\" Frost started out as a school teacher living the rural life of a would-be farmer, and later turned to farming full time when he bought a place of his own. After a sojourn in England where his first two books were published to critical acclaim, he returned to New England, acquired a new farm and became a rustic for much of the rest of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   Frost claimed that all of his poetry was farm poetry. His deep admiration for Virgil's \u003ci\u003eGeorgics\u003c\/i\u003e, or poems of rural life, inspired the creation of his own New England \"georgics,\" his answer to the haughty 20th-century modernism that seemed certain to define the future of Western poetry. Like the \"West-Running Brook\" in his poem of the same name, Frost's poetry can be seen as an embodiment of contrariness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54182253429080,"sku":null,"price":27.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780786497898.jpg?v=1764627338","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/robert-frosts-poetry-of-rural-life","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}