Made from rare archival recordings - this audio, part of The Voice of the Poet series, features a celebrated poet reading his own works.

Robert Frost (1874-1963) Robert Frost was one of the most highly esteemed American poets of the twentieth century. In addition to winning four Pultizer Prizes for poetry, he received forty-four honorary degrees and a host of government tributes, including a brithday greetings from the Senate, a congressional medal, an appointment as honorary consultant to the Library of Congress, and an invitation from JFK to recite a poem at his presidential inauguration. Thrice, at the State Department's request, he traveled on goodwill mission's to Brazil, Britain and Greece.

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