Robert Faggen

About The Author

Robert Faggen is the Barton Evans and H. Andrea Neves Professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author, editor, and coeditor of several books, including The Cambridge Introduction to Robert Frost.

Books by Robert Faggen

Evaluations of US Poetry since 1950, Volume 2

Mind, Nation, and Power

Edited by Robert von Hallberg and Robert Faggen
Horace speaks of poetry delighting and instructing. While Evaluations of US Poetry since 1950, Volume 1 explores the pleasures of poetry—its language, forms, and musicality—volume 2 focuses on the public dimensions. In this volume, von Hallberg and Faggen have gathered a diverse selection of poet...
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Evaluations of US Poetry since 1950, Volume 1

Language, Form, and Music

Edited by Robert von Hallberg and Robert Faggen
Over the last sixty years scholars and critics have focused on literary history and interpretation rather than literary value. When value is addressed, the standards are usually political and identitarian. The essays collected in both volumes of Evaluations of US Poetry since 1950 move away from ...
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