Tom Ragle took an A.B. in Ancient Greek History and Literature at Harvard University and a B.A. and M.A. in English Language and Literature at Oxford University. He later served as President of Marlboro College (1958-81), Director of the Salzburg Seminar (1983-89), and Special Consultant to the United Nations Development Program in Beijing, China, on the teaching of English literature at the university level (1989-91). He also served two years each as a visiting professor and Special Assistant to the President at the University of Vermont and Trinity College (Vermont). Since retiring in 1993 he and his wife Nancy have lived in Guilford, Vermont in the home in which Nancy grew up. He serves on the board of Write Action.

English and American Poetry presented by Tom Ragle
Second Sunday of Every Month

Octgober 12, 2008
Miscellany: Different Voices in English and American Poetry

November 9, 2008
The Sonnet in English

December 14, 2008
John Donne

January 11, 2009
Alexander Pope

February 8, 2009
William Wordsworth

March 8, 2009
Robert Browning

April 12, 2009
Gerard Manley Hopkins

May 10, 2009
Walt Whitman

June 14,2009
Emily Dickinson

July 12, 2009
Thomas Hardy

August 9, 2009
William Butler Yeats

September 13, 2009
Robert Frost

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