JOHN P. QUINN: JOURNEYING WITH ROBERT FROST AND TED HUGHES
JOHN P. QUINN: JOURNEYING WITH ROBERT FROST AND TED HUGHES

Summary/Abstract: Defining what is special about John P. Quinn in a day and age having left behind, while also dealing with, long traditions and bewildering varieties of authors of all orientations is obviously difficult. Such an endeavor depends on expressions of sameness and difference of the grounds and realms shared with others, as well as in terms of oppositions to what others are or do. The current text examines Quinn’s work in relation to poetic coordinates to be found in Ted Hughes’s poetry of fascination with the mythic perspective on the fierce animal world, as well as with features to be observed in such American poets as Robert Frost. However, Quinn’s work asserts its artistic autonomy, expressing a remarkable sense of the here and now, while also evincing a fascination with the nostalgically remote. It displays memorable flashes and glimpses of personal experience, with occasional touches of humor. The current essay explores Quinn’s artistic realm, which reveals a legitimate drive toward dealing with new ground, both formally and thematically, to challenge formerly set fences and boundaries, while at the same time playing with them, in fashions reminiscent of the poetry of Robert Frost.

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