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This course will concern the imagination of our unled lives—the lives we might have led but have not. Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is the most familiar instance of this preoccupation, but Frost is only one of many artists for whom unled lives have been an ongoing concern--Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Phillip Larkin, Ian McEwan, and Sharon Olds are among the many others. Why are people so interested in what has not happened to them? And why should writers and film-makers in particular be so interested in these non-events?