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1957 Robert Frost Reads His Poetry Vinyl LP Record VG+
Vinyl / Jacket Grade per Goldmine Standard: VG+ / VG+; Jacket still in shrink
Side One The Road Not Taken • The Pasture • Mowing • Birches • After Apple-Picking • The Tuft of Flowers • My November Guest • Acquainted with the Night • Tree at my Window • West-Running Brook • Death of a Hired Man Side Two The Witch of Coos • Mending Wall • One More Brevity • Departmental • A Considerable Speck • Why Wait for Science • Etherealizing • Provide, Provide • One Step Backward Taken • Choose Some- thing Like a Star • Happiness Makes Up in Height • Reluctance Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.” There, clearly set out by Robert Frost himself, is the very essence of Frost’s poetry: "the speaking tone of voice some- how entangled in the words," the pulsation of roots and blood, the tensile strength of the tough fibre, the sad smile, the sardonic chuckle, all somehow entangled in the words. This recording was made in May of 1956 at Robert Frost’s home in Cambridge, where ebullient spirits, rural quiet and a feeling that this was to be the definitive Frost recording influ- enced the fine vitality of this reading.



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