Thursdays 10-12 Noon
January 15 through February 19, 2004
Kendal -Training Room
In this course we will examine six well-known poems, using them as pretexts to study less familiar but very interesting poems with similar themes. We will strive to be informal in our discussions. In fact, our discussions will be more like conversations. Poems will be read aloud. Opinions and observations will be voluntary. (Don't worry - this experience of poetry isn't going to reproduce the stress of schoolwork!) Although the texts on which we focus our attention will be available as photocopied hand-outs in each session, participants are encouraged to bring a collected works along with them.
Class is limited to 12 members.
Margaret Edwards was an English professor at the University of Vermont in Burlington for thirty years. She received her BA in English from Bryn Mawr College and did her graduate work at Stanford. Her specialty has always been modern and contemporary American poetry as well as the teaching of writing.
