The Gift Outright
"The Gift Outright" is a poem written by Robert Frost. Frost first recited it at the College of William & Mary on December 5, 1941, but its most famous recitation occurred on January 20, 1961 at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy.[1]
Publication and inaugural recitation
The poem was first published in the Virginia Quarterly Review in Spring 1942. It was collected in Frost's volume A Witness Tree in 1943. According to Jeffrey S. Cramer the poem may have been written as early as 1936.[1][2]
At the presidential inauguration Frost recited "The Gift Outright" from memory instead of reading his new poem "For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration".[3]
See also
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tuten, Nancy Lewis; Zubizarreta, John (2001). The Robert Frost Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 9780313294648
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