Schedule

Introductory Remarks

Jonathan Crewe, Willard Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Director, Leslie Center for the Humanities (Dartmouth College)

Professor Bill Cook (Dartmouth College)

Rachel Buxton and Marit MacArthur

Panel 1: Frost Influenced, Frost Influential

Rachel Buxton, Oxford University:
"'Structure and Serendipity': Affinities between Robert Frost and Paul Muldoon"

John Talbot, Brigham Young University:
"Roman Rebuttals and 'For Once, Then, Something'"

Chair: Sean Heuston, The Citadel

Panel 2: Frost's Rhetorics

Sean Heuston, The Citadel: "As We Know: Robert Frost, Proto-Postmodernist"

Beth Ellen Roberts, University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Coast: "Transcending the Strife Method: Frost's Pragmatic Dialogues"

Gerard Quinn, University College, Dublin: "The Crooked Straightness of Frost and Emerson"

Chair: Ann Mikkelsen, American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Panel 3: Frost and Modernism

David Haglund, Oxford University: "Puke or Prude": Frost and Stevens in the Literary Marketplace, 1923

Robert B. Hass, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania:
"(Re) Reading Bergson: Robert Frost, Ezra Pound And the Legacy of Modern Poetry"

Jennie Sykes, Oxford University: "Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams - 'replying to Greek and Latin with the bare hands'?"

Chair: Stephen Regan, Royal Holloway, University of London

Keynote speaker

Robert Faggen, Claremont McKenna: "The Pleasures of Merely Circulating in the Vicious Circles of Frost's Notebooks"

Panel 4: Frost and the American Cultural Scene

Sebastian Bach, Boston University: " 'trial by market': Robert Frost's Fetishistic Poetics"

Marit MacArthur, University of California, Davis: "Becoming a New England Poet: the Role of Tourism in Frost's Early Career"

Chair: Lisa Seale, University of Wisconsin, Marathon County

Keynote speaker

Tyler Hoffman, Rutgers University: "Robert Frost: The Poet as Anthropologist"

Paul Muldoon and Robert Pinsky

Round-table discussion

Jay Parini leads round-table discussion of Frost biography, and the new material to be published from the Frost Collection

Panel 5: Readers & Reputation

Deirdre Fagan, University of Miami: "Frost: Not a Nature Poet?"

Sara Hilinski, Boston University: "Frost's Ghostly Poet and Phantom Reader: The Problem of Presence in 'Ghost House' and 'Desert Places' "

Chair: Bob Hass, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania