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Robert Frost Reads Poem at JFK's Inauguration


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'Dedication,' Robert Frost's presidential inaugural poem, 20 January 1961.

Robert Frost's inaugural poem, "Dedication," with his editing marks

CREDIT: Frost, Robert. "'Dedication,' Robert Frost's presidential inaugural poem, 20 January 1961. Typescript with Frost's holograph script corrections in ink and Stewart Udall's holograph clarifications in pencil on the last page." Permission to reproduce the poem online was granted by the Estate of Robert Frost and Henry Holt and Co., Inc. From The Poetry of Robert Frost edited by Edward Connery Lathem, copyright 1961, 1962 by Robert Frost, copyright 1969 by Henry Holt and Co. (Stewart L. Udall Collection). Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First 100 Years, Library of Congress.



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