Program Type:
Book Discussion, Lectures, Presentations, & Author Events, Music, Arts, & Culture, OtherAge Group:
AdultsProgram Description
Event Details
In an essay titled “Autumnal Tints” written in 1859, Henry David Thoreau lamented that “the autumnal change of our woods has not made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.” Had he lived a few years beyond his death in 1862, Thoreau would have had to (happily) modify his lament, for from the late nineteenth century to the present, New England poets have produced a bumper crop of fabulous poems about what is arguably our region’s most distinctive season. Please join us for this four-part series as we discuss various New England poets’ responses to the fall season!
This class will be interactive, so you will be encouraged to participate as the spirit moves you. Cyrus Cook, a former English instructor at Choate Rosemary Hall, will lead each discussion.
Class #1 Poems: Summer into Fall:
EE Cummings, “1)a”
Donald Hall, “The Sleeping Giant”
Emily Dickinson, “Summer begins to have the look”
Mary Oliver, “Fall”
Separate registration is required for each class. You are not required to attend all of the classes in the series; you may sign up only for the session(s) that interest you. Please sign up for the first class below!