Audiobooks by Robert Frost

A Rare Recording of Poet Robert Frost Reading "The Gift Outright" at President Kennedy's Inauguratio

In 1961, poet Robert Frost was invited to read at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. It would be the first by a poet for an inaugural ceremony. President-elect Kennedy asked Frost to recite the poem "The Gift Outright" unless the poet planned to write a poem especially for the occasion. Frost did, in fact, write a new poem for the day entitled "Dedication." However, when the time came to read, the wind and sun's glare made this impossible, though Frost made a valiant attempt. Instead, he reverted to "The Gift Outright," which he read by heart: "The land was ours before we were the land’s. She was our land more than a hundred years, Before we were her people. She was ours In Massachusetts, in Virginia, But we were England’s, still colonials, Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed. Something we were withholding made us weak, Until we found out that it was ourselves, We were withholding from our land of living, And forthwith found salvation in surrender. Such as we were we gave ourselves outright, (The deed of gift was many deeds of war), To the land vaguely realizing westward, But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced, Such as she was, such as she will become."

Robert Frost (Author), Robert Frost (Narrator)

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New Hampshire

New Hampshire is a collection of poems by Robert Frost first published in 1923 by Henry Holt. It contains a number of his best known poems, including 'Fire and Ice', 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening', 'Nothing Gold Can Stay', and “For Once, Then, Something”. The collection is organized into three sections: the poem “New Hampshire”, a group of poems labeled “Notes”, and a second group labeled “Grace Notes”. New Hampshire is considered Frost’s tour de force and cemented his reputation as America’s greatest poet. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1924. If you want to understand what Frost was up to and why he is considered so highly, this is the book to start with.

Robert Frost (Author), Douglas Harvey (Narrator)

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Poetry For Men: (who thought they’d never like poetry)

For centuries poetry has provided a light in times of darkness. For Abraham Lincoln that light was Mortality. For Winston Churchill it was The Charge of the Light Brigade. For Nelson Mandela it was Invictus. Now, Rob Redenbach recites a selection of ten classic poems that provide timeless advice for keeping your head 'when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.' With a background that ranges from working with the bodyguard team of Nelson Mandela in South Africa and being listed by Business Review Weekly as one of Australia's top ten professional speakers, Rob Redenbach has been a guest speaker at over 1000 corporate events nationally and internationally. He is the best-selling author of What I Didn't Learn at Harvard.

Banjo Patterson, James Elroy Flecker, John James Ingalls, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Frost, Robert Redenbach, Rudyard Kipling, William Ernest Henley, William Shakespeare (Author), Rob Redenbach (Narrator)

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New Hampshire

Robert Frost (1874-1963) was the most celebrated poet in America for most of the twentieth century. Although chiefly associated with the life and landscapes of New England, his work embodies penetrating and often dark explorations of universal themes. New Hampshire features Frost's meditations on rural life, love, and death, delivered in the voice of a soft-spoken New Englander. Critics have long marveled at the poet's gift for capturing the speech of the region's natives and his realistic evocations of the area's landscapes. This compilation first published in 1923 earned Frost the first of his four Pulitzer Prizes, and includes several of his best-known poems: 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,' 'Nothing Gold Can Stay,' and 'Fire and Ice' as well as verse based on such traditional songs as 'I Will Sing You One-O.' Winner of the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Robert Frost (Author), John Lescault (Narrator)

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A Whiff of Wilde, a Pinch of Poe, and a Frisson of Frost: A Dab of Dickens, Vol. 3; Selections from

They are icons of the literary world whose soaring works have been discussed and analyzed in countless classrooms, homes, and pubs. Yet for most readers, the living, breathing human beings behind the classics have remained unknown-until now. In this utterly captivating book, Dr. Elliot Engel, a leading authority on the lives of great authors, illuminates the fascinating and flawed members of literature's elite. In lieu of stuffy biographical sketches, Engel provides fascinating anecdotes. You'll never look at these literary giants the same way again.

Edd Mcnair, Edgar Allan Poe, Elliot Engel, Oscar Wilde, Phd Elliot Engel, Robert Frost (Author), Alfre Woodard, Arte Johnson, Bronson Pinchot, Cassandra Campbell, Christopher Cazenove, David Warner, Efrem Zimbalist, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Elliott Gould, Gabrielle De Cuir, Gregory Hines, Jean Smart, Joel Grey, Kevin Mccarthy, Melissa Manchester, Michael Tucker, Michael York, Phd Elliot Engel, Roger Rees, Roscoe Lee Browne, Simon Vance, Simon Vance, Stefan Rudnicki, Stephen Fry, Various, Various Narrators, Various Narrators (Narrator)

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Home Burial

"Home Burial" is a poem about a man and woman who baby has died. It tells of the burial, how the parents react to this death, particularly their lack of communication. This piece is especially poignant given that Frost's son Elliot died at age 4, his daughter Elinor Bettina died when she was a few days old, his wife experienced a miscarriage, two of his daughters suffered mental breakdowns and died, and his son Carol committed suicide.

Robert Frost (Author), John Hitchcock (Narrator)

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Classic American Poetry

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost, Robert Lowell, Walt Whitman (Author), Garrick Hagon, Liza Ross (Narrator)

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