Stanley Burnshaw

Photo © Susan Copen Oken

A lecture on Robert Frost presented for the Academy of American Poets by Stanley Burnshaw on October 9, 1990

1. Anonymous Alba (2:40): MP3
2. The Muse (trans. of Anna Akhmatova) (1:02): MP3
3. The Good Angel (trans. of Rafael Alberti) (1:20): MP3
4. L'amoureuse (trans. of Paul Eluard) (1:00): MP3
5. Denk nicht zu viel (trans. of Stefan George) (1:12): MP3
6. Passé (trans. of Paul Eluard) (1:18): MP3
7. Nativity (trans. of André Spire) (1:14): MP3
8. Nudities (trans. of André Spire) (2:16): MP3
9. introduction and epigraph for "Thoughts about a Garden" series (0:55): MP3
10. Summer (1:26): MP3
11. Ancient of Nights (1:11): MP3
12. Historical Song of Then and Now (1:41): MP3
13. Thoughts about a Garden (1:57): MP3
14. Ravel and Bind (0:37): MP3
15. Caged in an Animal's Mind (1:23): MP3
16. Symbol Curse (1:19): MP3
17. The Valley Between (2:04): MP3
18. Midnight Wind to the Tossed (1:39): MP3
19. Petitioner Dogs (1:13): MP3
20. A Recurring Vision (2:45): MP3
21. Father-Stones (0:46): MP3
22. The Axe of Eden (15:14): MP3
23. A River (2:01): MP3
24. Modes of Belief (1:15): MP3
25. Letter from One Who Could Not Cross the Frontier (1:08): MP3
26. Surface (0:36): MP3
27. Three in Throes (0:21): MP3
28. Boy over a Stream (1:21): MP3
29. Street for Abishag (0:34): MP3
30. Song of Nothings: In the Mountain's Shadow at Delphi (1:14): MP3
31. What Can I See (0:42): MP3
32. Presences (0:16): MP3
33. House in St. Petersburg (4:59): MP3
34. Looking for Papa (2:24): MP3
35. Blood (0:39): MP3
36. Bread (2:09): MP3
37. Outcast of the Waters (1:21): MP3

Complete reading (1:10:34): MP3

Special thanks to Nancy Kuhl for making these recordings available.

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the estate of the author. © 2011 The Estate of Stanley Burnshaw, Robert Zaller, Executor. Used with the permission of Robert Zaller for the author's estate. Distributed by PennSound.