{"product_id":"on-frost-and-eliot-9781589882027","title":"On Frost and Eliot","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a 2025 Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association's \u003ci\u003eChoice Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Frost and T.S. Eliot have received ample attention as major American poets of the last century. But they have usually been considered apart from one another, the homely all-American Frost assumed to have little in common with the sophisticated made-over English Eliot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Pritchard's interest is to see what emerges if we juxtapose the two poets and consider their respective poetic careers as quasi-friendly rivals, in technique, in historical weight, and in relation to other twentieth century poets, predominantly English and American ones. They took the occasion more than once to poke fun at the odd poems the other had produced, although they were mutually admiring as they aged. Pritchard's treatment of the pair takes its cue from Frost's distinction between them: \"I play Euchre; he plays Eucharist.\" \u003ci\u003eOn Frost and Eliot\u003c\/i\u003e explores the appropriateness of such a distinction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William H. Pritchard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Dry Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/13\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781589882027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam H. Pritchard\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several essay collections and literary biographies including \u003ci\u003eRandall Jarrell: A Literary Life, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eUpdike: America's Man of Letters, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEar Training \u003c\/i\u003e(Paul Dry Books, 2023). He is professor of English emeritus at Amherst College where he taught for sixty years. He lives in western Massachusetts.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"William H. Pritchard \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47659134419101,"sku":"9781589882027","price":44.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_b8abe74d-c5a6-43e2-a029-4f942240c218.jpg?v=1771351124","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/on-frost-and-eliot-9781589882027","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}