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Frost concludes many poems with questions unanswered. Sometimes celebrated as a plain-speaking New Englander with a gift for rhyme, he was also an anxious seeker — a man who wrote to keep control of a complex, troubled life. Never presented with a simple answer or a clear outcome, the reader needs to re-read and ponder with care. But —despite his uncertainties — Frost built his poems with great technical control and disciplined planning. We will read selected poems and admire the ways in which the poet forces us to think twice, to think again.

Instructor John Ward has been professor and chair of Kenyon College (Gambier, Ohio) English Department and has served as Dean of Centre College (Danville, Kentucky). He earned his B.A. from Amherst College and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, and has taught courses in 18th- and 19th-century British literature and the history of the British novel. He has published on 18th- and 19th-century British works, as well as those of Vachel Lindsay and Robert Lowell.

(Class will not meet on May 3)

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