＜概要/Course Content Summary＞
This seminar offers a thorough introduction to the poetry and prose of the American poet Robert Frost. We will read all of his books of poetry, a number of his letters and essays, and also selected scholarly articles about him. In the following schedule of readings, all page numbers, unless otherwise indicated, refer to Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose and Plays (New York: Library of America, 1995).
＜到達目標/Goals,Aims＞
This course offers a complete overview of Robert Frost’s career, and also an education in the “close reading” of lyric poetry that should serve students well in all of their graduate studies. We will also consider Frost's place in so-called "modernist" poetry, and the political and philosophical contexts for his writings.
＜授業計画/Schedule＞
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（実施回/ Week）
1-2
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（内容/ Contents）
Introduction to the course. Frost, A Boy’s Will (15-38).
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（授業時間外の学習/ Assignments）
Complete all readings prior to class meeting.
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3-4
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（内容/ Contents）
Frost, A Boy's Will (15-38). “Introduction” to The Arts Anthology: Dartmouth Verse (709-710). From Richard Poirier, Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing (28-75).
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（授業時間外の学習/ Assignments）
Complete all readings prior to class meeting.
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（実施回/ Week）
5-6
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（内容/ Contents）
Frost, North of Boston (39-69), and selected letters and talks on “the sound of sense” and related matters (664-697). Frost, 1934 letter to his daughter Lesley on the poetry of the mid-1910s (734-37). From John Evangelist Walsh, Into My Own: The English Years of Robert Frost (44-61).
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（授業時間外の学習/ Assignments）
Complete all readings prior to class meeting.
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7-8
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Frost, North of Boston (70-102), and selected letters and talks on “the sound of sense” and related matters (664-697). Selections from Frost’s short stories for Farm Poultry and The Eastern Poultryman (639-656).
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（授業時間外の学習/ Assignments）
Complete all readings prior to class meeting.
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9-10
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（内容/ Contents）
Frost, Mountain Interval (103-120), “The Figure a Poem Makes” (776-79).
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（授業時間外の学習/ Assignments）
Complete all readings prior to class meeting.
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11-12
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（内容/ Contents）
Frost, Mountain Interval (121-150), “Education by Poetry” (717-728).
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（授業時間外の学習/ Assignments）
Complete all readings prior to class meeting.
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13-14
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（内容/ Contents）
Frost, New Hampshire (151-202).
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（授業時間外の学習/ Assignments）
Complete all readings prior to class meeting.
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（実施回/ Week）
15-16
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（内容/ Contents）
Frost, New Hampshire (203-223).
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（授業時間外の学習/ Assignments）
Complete all readings prior to class meeting.
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（実施回/ Week）
17-18
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（内容/ Contents）
Frost, West-Running Brook (224-248).
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（授業時間外の学習/ Assignments）
Complete all readings prior to class meeting.
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（実施回/ Week）
19-20
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（内容/ Contents）
Frost, A Further Range (249-268). Frost, “Introduction” to Sarah Cleghorn’s Threescore (749-52), Introduction to E.A. Robinson’s King Jasper (741-748). David Evans, “Robert Frost and the Great Depression.”
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（授業時間外の学習/ Assignments）
Complete all readings prior to class meeting.
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（実施回/ Week）
21-22
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Frost, A Witness Tree (301-315). William Pritchard, “Frost Biography and A Witness Tree.” Donald Sheehy, “(Re)Figuring Love: Robert Frost in Crisis, 1938-1942.”
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（授業時間外の学習/ Assignments）
Complete all readings prior to class meeting.
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（実施回/ Week）
23-24
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（内容/ Contents）
Frost, A Witness Tree (316-338). Frost, "The Constant Symbol" (786-791), "Letter to The Amherst Student" (739-740).
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（授業時間外の学習/ Assignments）
Complete all readings prior to class meeting.
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（実施回/ Week）
25-26
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（内容/ Contents）
Frost, Steeple Bush (339-364), “An Afterword” (365-371).
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（授業時間外の学習/ Assignments）
Complete all readings prior to class meeting.
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（実施回/ Week）
27-28
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（内容/ Contents）
Frost, “A Masque of Reason” and “A Masque of Mercy” (372-417).
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（授業時間外の学習/ Assignments）
Complete all readings prior to class meeting.
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（実施回/ Week）
29-30
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（内容/ Contents）
Frost, In the Clearing (418-478). Review of the course, and of the requirements for the term, paper (due date to be announced).
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（授業時間外の学習/ Assignments）
Complete all readings prior to class meeting.
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Our schedule of readings is subject to change, according to the interests of the seminar.
＜成績評価基準/Evaluation Criteria＞
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平常点(出席，クラス参加，グループ作業の成果等)
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30%
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Students must attend class regularly and participate in all class discussions.
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小レポート
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20%
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Oral presentation.
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期末レポート試験・論文
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50%
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Term paper.
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Requirements: Vigorous class participation, including a short presentation, and one term paper. (The paper should be about 10 pages in length.)
＜テキスト/Textbook＞
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Robert Frost
, Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays.
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(Library of America, 1995)
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Co-op
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1036
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ISBN:188301106X
The Library of America edition of Frost is the single most comprehensive collection of his writings.
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All readings not from this edition will be distributed in photocopy.
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