Summer 2025 OLLI Digital Catalog 

Frost’s Lesser-Known Masterpieces (H335)

H – Literature

Extended discussion of the following poems by Robert Frost: The Star-Splitter (the subject to be considered in the first class), The Grindstone, The Ax-Helve, The Strong Are Saying Nothing, On a Tree Fallen Across the Road, Neither Out Far Nor In Deep, Love and a Question, and The Exposed Nest. For enjoyment and stimulation, let’s take the time to sit a spell and talk. As Frost urged his readers in The Pasture, “you come too.”

This offering meets for a total of 4 session(s).

INSTRUCTOR: William Zak

ZAK, WILLIAM — Ph.D., English literature, University of Michigan; M.A., Lehigh University; B.A., Boston College. Retired from a 30-year teaching career in the Department of English of Salisbury University. Author of several books on Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets, Greek tragedy, and, most recently, a study of Robert Frost’s major poetry, published in 2022 by Lexington Books. (H335)

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