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09/04/2009
Lecture Series
Date: Tuesday, October 27
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Main Building, Room 103
RSVP: Please email lectures@aquinascollege.edu or call (615) 383-3230 to reserve a seat.
Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher
Peter J. Stanlis, Ph.D.
Rockford College
Robert Frost is one of the most celebrated American poets of the 20th century, partly because his poetry seems, on the surface, to be so accessible--even "homey." But according to Dr. Stanlis, Frost was more than a powerful writer of popular lyric and narrative verse. Rather, his work was a sophisticated critique of the philosophical forces that gave rise to 20th-century totalitarianism.
In June 1939 while a graduate student at the Bread Loaf School of English in Ripton, Vermont, Dr. Peter J. Stanlis met American poet Robert Frost and developed a professional association and personal friendship that lasted 23 years. Dr. Stanlis’s familiarity with the poet's philosophical and political views gives him an insight into Frost's poetry that has made Dr. Stanlis one of the foremost Frost scholars in the world today.
Peter J. Stanlis, Ph.D., distinguished professor of humanities emeritus of Rockford College, has taught in prominent American and European colleges for more than forty years and remains the most widely published authority on the 18th-century political philosopher and statesman Edmund Burke. One of six founders of The American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Dr. Stanlis has published more than 100 articles on political, historical, legal, educational, and literary subjects, in addition to editing a law journal. In 1982, President Reagan appointed Dr. Stanlis to the National Council for the Humanities; and in 1987, he was appointed a British Academy Research Fellow and became a member of the Academic Board of the National Humanities Institute.
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