{"product_id":"9781476619453","title":"Robert Frost's Poetry of Rural Life","description":"“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.    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.","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Company, Incorporated Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47162926530800,"sku":"9781476619453","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781476619453_p0.jpg?v=1763608696","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781476619453","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}