Robert Frost, Live: Authenticity and Performance in the Audio Archive
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But all fun's in how you say thing. --Robert Frost, Mountain. The most famous poetry reading in American history occurred on Friday January 20, 1961. On that bright chilly morning, Robert Frost stood before vast crowd assembled at Capitol in Washington, D.C., to recite Gift Outright as part of John F. Kennedy's inauguration ceremony. Frost had planned to say two poems that morning. The first, Dedication (subsequently titled For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration), Frost couldn't complete because sharp sun blinded his failing eyes, despite his having had poem typed on an oversized-character typewriter once used by President Eisenhower. After fumbling through first few lines of Dedication Frost abandoned altogether, telling crowd, to their roaring approval, that was merely a preface to poem I can say to you without seeing it (qtd. in Thompson, Later Years 281). He then intoned Gift Outright in voice that biographer Lawrance Thompson calls firm unfaltering reporter for Washington Post terme
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But all fun's in how you say thing. --Robert Frost, Mountain. The most famous poetry reading in American history occurred on Friday January 20, 1961. On that bright chilly morning, Robert Frost stood before vast crowd assembled at Capitol in Washington, D.C., to recite Gift Outright as part of John F. Kennedy's inauguration ceremony. Frost had planned to say two poems that morning. The first, Dedication (subsequently titled For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration), Frost couldn't complete because sharp sun blinded his failing eyes, despite his having had poem typed on an oversized-character typewriter once used by President Eisenhower. After fumbling through first few lines of Dedication Frost abandoned altogether, telling crowd, to their roaring approval, that was merely a preface to poem I can say to you without seeing it (qtd. in Thompson, Later Years 281). He then intoned Gift Outright in voice that biographer Lawrance Thompson calls firm unfaltering reporter for Washington Post terme
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