Robert Frost Speaking on Campus: Excerpts from His Talks, 1949- 1962

Frost, Robert

ISBN 10: 0393071235 / ISBN 13: 9780393071238

Published by W.W. Norton, New York, 2009

About this Item

8vo, 199 pp., Edited by Edward Connery Lathen with an introdustion by David M. Shribman.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Robert Frost Speaking on Campus: Excerpts from His Talks, 1949- 1962
• Publisher: W.W. Norton, New York
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393071235
• ISBN 13: 9780393071238
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

“Frost was the first American who could be honestly reckoned a master-poet by world standards.”―Robert Graves

Robert Frost’s poetry has triumphantly survived him, but most readers today have not known him in one of his most significant capacities―as teacher and lecturer. Here, collected for the first time, are excerpts from forty-six of his presentations delivered to students at more than thirty academic institutions over three decades. Frost’s topics include: “What I think I’m doing when I write a poem,” “Getting up things to say for yourself,” “The future of the world,” “Fall in love at sight,” and “Not freedom from, but freedom of.”

Gathered by Edward Connery Lathem, editor of The Poetry of Robert Frost, and introduced by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist David M. Shribman, Robert Frost: Speaking on Campus reveals Frost in the setting of both classroom and lecture hall, where he inspired thousands. 9 photos

About the Author

Robert Frost, whose career spanned half a century, not only became America’s most widely read and cherished poet but also emerged as an immensely popular public figure. He won four Pulitzer Prizes.