Abstract: "Sermons in Stones" (1974)

• The difference between what H. P. Grice calls natural meaning and nonnatural meaning, especially as regards the absence or presence of communicative intention, is dramatized in an important though little-known poem by Robert Frost about writing and reading, "A Missive Missile" (1934).

Michael Hancher

Department of English, University of Minnesota

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Created February 1995

Last revised 17 September 1996