2019 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
The Art and Letters of Robert Frost
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17K02568
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| Research Institution | Doshisha University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2017-04-01 – 2022-03-31
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| Keywords | Robert Frost / American poetry / letters |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
During the 2019-2020 academic year, I completed work on the typescript of "The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 3: 1929-1936." During the fall of 2019, in cooperation with my co-editors, I readied the final typescript, and, in January 2020, I submitted it to Harvard University Press. As of now (May 2020) the book is in production, with an anticipated publication date of February 2021. I have also been revising several essays on Frost's work, as illuminated by his letters, with a view toward completing another book about the poet. I have also been cataloguing a large private collection of Frost's manuscripts (held at present by the daughter of a Frost family friend). It is perhaps the largest as yet uncatalogued cache of the poet's literary manuscripts.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.
Reason
I am currently on sabbatical in the USA. My plan had been to visit a number of archives of Frost's papers during the late winter, spring, and summer of 2020. Unfortunately, due to the coronavirus pandemic, all of the archives and libraries I hoped to visit closed indefinitely (as of March 2020). My hope is that they will reopen to researchers in June or July, before my sabbatical ends (on August 31, 2020).
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
While "The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 3: 1929-1936" is in production, I am beginning work on volume four, which I hope to complete (in cooperation with my co-editors) by the close of 2021. I am also continuing to work on a group of essays on Frost which I plan to fashion into a book (as indicated above).
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| Causes of Carryover |
Chiefly due to the coronavirus pandemic, I have had to defer some of the research I had hoped to fund with grant money. As of late February 2020, all archives and libraries holding Robert Frost's literary manuscripts have been closed to the public.
My plan for next year is to travel to archives in America to continue research for volumes 4 and 5 of the edition, and to transcribe, edit, and annotate letters for the date range of each volume.
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