The Man Who Is and Is Not There: The Poetry and Prose of Robert Francis

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☙ 171 Abcarian, Richard, 60 “The Amanita,” 58, 72 anthropocentrism, 94, 159n11 Antinous, 130 “Apple Peeler,” 15, 24 “Artist,” 151n10 Arvin, Newton, 161n1 “Astronomer,” 140 Babcock, Matthew, 152n1 Bartlett, John, 152n13 “Base Stealer,” 59, 61–62 Beaver, Harold, 124, 126 Benkert, Dr. Karoly M., 162n3 biocentrism, 92, 159n11 “The Black Hood,” 137 “Blood Stains,” 87–88 “Blue Cornucopia,” 83–85, 87, 141–42 “Blue Jay,” 66–67 “Blue Winter,” 27–28, 30, 102, 154n7 “Boy Riding Forward Backward,” 160n3 Boynton, Mrs. (Mrs. Bemis), 2, 9, 12–15, 150–51n8 Bradley, Robert, 7, 84 “The Brass Candlestick,” 145–46 “Bravura,” 142–43 Buell, Lawrence, 31, 41 “The Bulldozer,” 92 “Burial,” 71–72 Burnshaw, Stanley, 109–10, 114, 151n10, 152n13, 161n11 Cameron, Sharon, 153n6 Caravaggio, 130 “Catch,” 60–61 A Certain Distance, 5, 129–30 “Chimaphila, 1972,” 91 Christ, 89, 103 Ciardi, John, 113 Cicero, 154n9 “Clairvoyance,” 154n7 Clarification of God, 111 “Cloud in Woodcut,” 151n10, 160n7 “Clouds,” 38 “Cold,” 70–71, 156n9 Come Out Into the Sun, 4, 73–74, 141 “Come Out Into the Sun,” 15, 73 “Coming and Going,” 36–37 “Condor,” 82–83 Cooper, Charles W., 113 Crane, Hart, “Possessions,” 122 Cubbage, Elinor P., 47 Cummings, E. E., 75; “r-p-o-p-h-e-s-sa -g-r,” 75, 157n3 “Cypresses,” 116–17 “Dark Sonnets,” 122, 124–27, 136 Darwin, Charles, 159n11 “Demonstration,” 55–58 Index 172 ❧ Index detached engagement, 5, 98, 101, 112, 116–18, 160n3. See also hovering Dickinson, Emily, 71–72, 121; “I heard a Fly buzz when I died,” 71; “Tell all the Truth but tell it slant,” 121–22 “Divers,” 131–32, 133, 134 “Dolphin,” 80, 82 Donatello, 130 Donne, John, 89 Donoghue, Denis, 57 Dorius, Joel, 161n1 “Eagle Soaring,” 55 ecology, 92 Edwards, Jonathan, 161n10 Elder, John, 56, 97 Eliot, T. S., 138 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 3, 27–31, 38, 86, 103, 108, 139, 153n5, 154n9; “The American Scholar,” 38; The Heart of Emerson’s Journals, 29, 153n5; “Nature,” 5, 27, 30–31, 35, 37–38, 103; “The Poet,” 76 “Encounter,” 58, 72 “Enviable,” 55 Epictetus, 154n9 “Evening Ride,” 154n7 “Excellence,” 63–64 The Face Against the Glass, 3, 49–51, 58, 72, 115, 137, 155n1 “Fall,” 107–8 Fell, Mary, 7 Fiedler, Leslie, 128, 163n8 Field, 122 Fitts, Dudley, 50 “Flower and Bee,” 37–38 “For the Ghost of Robert Frost,” 101–2, 118 Fort Juniper, 2, 12, 14, 20, 23, 26–27, 40–41, 150n6, 152n2, 153n3 fragmented surface, 4, 74, 83, 141 Francis, Eben (Francis’s father), 1–2, 66–67, 95, 145–46 Francis, Ida May (Francis’s mother), 21, 144–45 Friedman, Norman, 50, 59, 65 Frost, Robert, 4–5, 10, 17, 23–24, 47–48, 69, 71, 98, 99–118, 119–20, 121, 125, 137, 140, 146, 152n13; on career, 24, 104, 152n13; falling out with Francis, 23–24, 151–52n12; laissez-faire attitude, 103–4, 112–13; mentor to Francis, 2–3, 98, 151n10, 159n1; poetry: “Acquainted with the Night,” 125; “Blueberries,” 103, 105; “Desert Places,” 112, 156n11; “Design,” 71, 108–9, 112, 156n11; “Home Burial,” 48; “I Will Sing You One-O,” 140; “In Time of Cloudburst,” 103; “In White,” 161n9; “The Mountain,” 100; “New Hampshire,” 113; “An Old Man’s Winter Night,” 116; “On the Question of an Old Man’s Feeling,” 120, 152n12, 162n2; “The Oven Bird,” 106–7, 117; “The Silken Tent,” 24, 151n12; “Something for Hope,” 103–4; “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” 70, 112–13, 156n11; “Storm Fear,” 68; “Tree at My Window,” 39, 154n10; prose: “The Figure a Poem Makes,” 105; The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer, 102, 154n7 Frost: A Time to Talk, 48, 98–99, 103–5, 106, 118, 141, 151n10, 159n1, 160n7 “Frost as Apple Peeler,” 152n12 Gillman, Richard, 12, 14, 16–17, 18, 149n1, 150n6, 156n10 Gilpin, William, 31, 153n6 “Glass,” 76 “Gold,” 139–40 “The Goldfish Bowl,” 88–89, 131 “The Good Life,” 130–31 Gospel of Matthew, and Frost’s “Something for Hope,” 103 Graham, David, 7, 18, 65, 95, 100, 107, 115, 129, 156n10, 160n3, 163n9 ☙ 173 Index “Gray Squirrel,” 142 Gusto, Thy Name Was Mrs. Hopkins, 1–2, 7–12 Hadrian, 130 Harcourt, Alfred, 114 Hardy, Thomas, 154n8 Hall, Donald, 47, 105, 114, 116, 137, 149n1 “Hay,” 16, 28, 32–33, 44 “A Health to Earth,” 92–94 “Heat Wave,” 132, 133 Hecht, Anthony, 59, 61 Helms, Alan, 121–22 “High Diver,” 134–35...