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

Complete recording (6:08): MP3

Stanley Burnshaw reading his poems, May 16, 1963

from the Lee Anderson Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Library, Yale University

  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.

Also of interest:

Lee Anderson reading and discussing Robert Frost, from the Lee Anderson Papers, Washington University Special Collections Department, May 18, 1961 (32:35): MP3

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.