LIT195 CM - Robert Frost

An examination of the poetry and prose of Robert Frost, one of the preeminent American poets. Consideration will be given to Frost’s work in relation to traditions of pastoral poetry and classical authors, his innovations in blank verse and English metrics, his dialogue with science and pragmatism, and his thinking about the nature of metaphor and poetic drama. Careful attention will be given to Frost’s ambivalent relationship to literary modernism, American predecessors, especially Emerson, Thoreau, and Dickinson, his reaction to the New Deal and the Cold War, and the complex history of Frost biography.

Offered: Every other year

Credit: 1

Course Number: LIT 195 CM