Rhapsodize Audio presents twelve poems of Robert Frost from the years 1912 through 1922 performed by Winston Tharp.  The poems in order of performance are My November Guest; Mending Wall; After Apple Picking; An Old Man’s Winter Night; The Oven Bird; Birches; The Sound of Trees; The Grindstone; For Once, Then, Something; Not to Keep; The Need of Being Versed in Country Things; and Design.

Early Poems of Robert Frost

Birches by Robert Frost Read by Winston Tharp

The Lark Ascending by George Meredith was the inspiration for Ralph Vaughan Williams' musical composition of the same name.

The Lark Ascending by George Meredith read by Winston Tharp

According to one analysis, Mew sets this poem in the south of England using her own version of a regional dialect.  I hope that I won’t offend by relocating it to America’s Appalachia and offering my own version of a regional dialect.

The Farmer's Bride by Charlotte Mew Read by Winston Tharp

Owen describes a nightmare battlefield like something from a Hieronymus Bosch painting of hell.

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