Robert Frost A study in sensibility and good senseGorham Bert MunsonOmniClassics · Literature
Robert Frost A study in sensibility and good sense
Gorham Bert MunsonAn early critical portrait asks how Frost's sensibility, speech, and judgment work together in his poetry.
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About the book
Gorham B. Munson studies Frost while the poet's career is still unfolding, combining biographical context with discussion of particular poems and critical responses. Chapter titles drawn from Frost's writing signal the method: the poems provide ways into questions of temperament, independence, and artistic purpose. The subtitle's pairing of sensibility and good sense is itself an interpretation, inviting readers to test how well it describes the voices encountered in the verse. Appendices add contemporary opinion, bibliography, and material on education. This is not a complete retrospective life of Frost, and its historical horizon matters. It can be read alongside the poems as evidence of how an attentive early reader tried to describe their distinctive balance of familiar language and unsettled thought.
- Poetic voice
- Critical reception
- Judgment and sensibility
Why read it
For an early account that can sharpen—and sometimes productively challenge—a reader's own response to Frost.
English critical study by Gorham B. Munson · 1927