Robert Frost: Speaking on Campus

Robert Frost, whose career spanned half a century, not only became America’s most widely read and cherished poet but also emerged as an immensely popular public figure. He won four Pulitzer Prizes.

"Starred Review. The great-some say greatest-American poet was at one time so shy that he couldn't be induced to lecture or read in public at all. Yet in his later years, he became a frequent and extravagantly beloved speaker from whom wisdom about life and poetry flowed with conversational warmth and relaxation. In these excerpts from talks given to 'town-and-gown' audiences (college denizens and outsiders) during his last 13 years, he is golden... at the heart of his message is the Socratic and Emersonian injunction to know oneself or, as he puts it in the very first talk here, 'getting up something to say for yourself.'" -- Ray Olson