Robert Frost and Northern Irish Poetry [Hardcover]

This is a pioneering study of the politics of Irish-American literary connections and exchanges, offering a much-needed assessment of Frost's significance for Northern Irish poetry of the past half-century. Drawing upon a diverse range of previously unpublished archival sources, Buxton takes as her particular focus the triangular dynamic of Frost, Heaney, and Muldoon, exploring the differing strengths which each Irish poet finds in Frost's work.

Preface
1. A crucial figure : Robert Frost and Northern Irish poetry
Part One: The acoustic of frost - Frost and Heaney
2. Assimilations of Influence
3. Strategic retreat
4. Language and Communication
Part Two: The frost has designs on it - Frost and Muldoon
5. Never quite showing his hand
6. Structure and serendipity
7. Intention, purpose, and design
Afterword
Appendices
Bibliography

A fresh and remarkably inventive contribution to modern poetry studies.... This is one of the few critical books I have read in many years that had me eagerly taking notes, wanting to reread its pages. It has prompted me to rethink not only the poetry of Robert Frost but its impact in the wider world. --Jay Parini, from the Foreword