Robert Frost: Speaking on Campus - Robert Frost & Edward Connery Lathem

By Robert Frost & Edward Connery Lathem

Release Date: 2009-09-28

Genre: Fiction & Literature

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ā€œFrost was the first American who could be honestly reckoned a master-poet by world standards.ā€ā€”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: ā€œWhat I think I’m doing when I write a poem,ā€ ā€œGetting up things to say for yourself,ā€ ā€œThe future of the world,ā€ ā€œFall in love at sight,ā€ and ā€œNot freedom from, but freedom of.ā€

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.

Robert Frost: Speaking on Campus - Robert Frost & Edward Connery Lathem

By Robert Frost & Edward Connery Lathem

Release Date: 2009-09-28

Genre: Fiction & Literature

(0 ratings)
ā€œFrost was the first American who could be honestly reckoned a master-poet by world standards.ā€ā€”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: ā€œWhat I think I’m doing when I write a poem,ā€ ā€œGetting up things to say for yourself,ā€ ā€œThe future of the world,ā€ ā€œFall in love at sight,ā€ and ā€œNot freedom from, but freedom of.ā€

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.

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