Ear Training is a retrospective collection of writings by nonagenarian William H. Pritchard, the Henry Clay Folger Professor of English, Emeritus, at Amherst College. The author is an Amherst man through and through. He took the A. B. there in 1953 and returned in 1958 to teach for six decades: his graduate schooling included a false start in philosophy at Columbia followed by success at Harvard, where he joined the “Amherst contingent” and received his doctorate in English in 1960. Over a highly distinguished career, he has published books on Robert Frost, Randall Jarrell, John Updike, as well as on poetry, poets, and teaching. He co-edited the 1980 edition of The Norton Anthology of American Literature. This is his second book of collected essays and reviews.
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