Bradley, Philip2013-05-282013-05-282013-05-28https://hdl.handle.net/11299/149629University of Minnesota master's thesis. Spring 2013. Degree: Master of Liberal Studies. Advisors:Jen Caruso, Michael Hancher. 1 computer file (PDF)The aphorism—defined as a concise statement of a truth or opinion, and seen by literary theorists as a fragment of thought which springs into the mind as an unexpected flash of intuition—is studied as a genre in Europe, but largely ignored in the U.S. As a result, the aphorisms scattered through the notebooks of Robert Frost, as transcribed by Robert Faggen, interest scholars only as they provide insight into Frost’s poetry. Instead, this extraordinary body of work of over a thousand aphorisms shows that Frost should be regarded as a great aphorist as well as a great poet.en-USunrecognized aphorismsaphorism as a genreaphorism as a fragmentRobert Frost notebooksaphorismRobert Frostaphorisms of Robert FrostThesis or Dissertation