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Audio Recording Richard Dyer-Bennet in a program of dramatic declamation of three excerpts from Homer's The Odyssey

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Title

  • Richard Dyer-Bennet in a program of dramatic declamation of three excerpts from Homer's The Odyssey

Summary

  • Mr. Dyer-Bennet recites three excerpts from the Robert Fitzgerald translation of Homer's The Odyssey.

Names

  • Homer.
  • Dyer-Bennet, Richard. prf
  • Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund.
  • Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 1979.

Contents

  • A goddess intervenes, from Book one -- A hero's son awakens, from Book two -- The test of the bow ; Death in the great hall, from books twenty-one and twenty-two.

Headings

  • -  Odysseus,--King of Ithaca (Mythological character)--Poetry
  • -  Epic poetry, Greek--Translations into English

Notes

  • -  Recorded Oct. 15-16, 1979, in the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
  • -  Sponsored by the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  • -  Recorded for the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature.

Medium

  • 1 sound tape reel (ca. 60 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, full track, mono. ; 10 in. + program information ([8] p.)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Tape 15616

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 91740991

Online Format

  • audio

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Chicago citation style:

Homer, Richard. Prf Dyer-Bennet, Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry And Literature Fund, and Archive Of Recorded Poetry And Literature. Richard Dyer-Bennet in a program of dramatic declamation of three excerpts from Homer's The Odyssey. 1979. Audio. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/91740991/.

APA citation style:

Homer, Dyer-Bennet, R. P., Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry And Literature Fund & Archive Of Recorded Poetry And Literature. (1979) Richard Dyer-Bennet in a program of dramatic declamation of three excerpts from Homer's The Odyssey. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/91740991/.

MLA citation style:

Homer, et al. Richard Dyer-Bennet in a program of dramatic declamation of three excerpts from Homer's The Odyssey. 1979. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/91740991/>.