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Essay collection on Robert Frost's work

“Dominion Over Nature” is an excerpt from Belief and Uncertainty in the Poetry of Robert Frost, a collection of essays by Robert Pack dedicated to the study and analysis of Robert Frost’s poems. 

Robert Frost (1874-1963) was an American poet, and most of his poems deal with themes such as nature and rural life in the 20th century. Frost is also the receiver of four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and is considered one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. 

A great admirer of Frost’s work, Pack dedicates the first chapter of his book to analyzing how nature is explored in Frost’s poems. The excerpt from Wider Contexts is taken from this chapter called “Taking Dominion over the Wilderness”. Other chapters in Pack’s book a...