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Audio Recording Poets I have known a lecture and poetry reading

Poets I have known a lecture and poetry reading
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Title

  • Poets I have known a lecture and poetry reading

Summary

  • In the course of his lecture, Lord Dunsany reads selections from T.S. Eliot, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Alfred Tennyson, Stephen Phillips, A.E., Francis Ledwidge, his own poems, William Watson, and Percy Bysshe Shelly.

Names

  • Dunsany, Lord, 1878-1957.
  • Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund.
  • Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 1955.

Headings

  • -  Poetry

Notes

  • -  Recorded Feb. 28, 1955, 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.
  • -  Literary recordings, rev., enl. ed., p. 62.
  • -  Preservation master. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Magnetic Recording Laboratory, 1973. 1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, double track, mono. ; 10 in.
  • -  Cataloging based on container/printed material/LC paperwork.

Medium

  • 1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, double track, mono. ; 10 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • RAA 27838 (original acetate -- not for playback)
  • LWO 2331 (preservation master)

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 93842946

Online Format

  • audio

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Chicago citation style:

Dunsany, Lord, Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry And Literature Fund, and Archive Of Recorded Poetry And Literature. Poets I have known a lecture and poetry reading. 1955. Audio. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/93842946/.

APA citation style:

Dunsany, L., Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry And Literature Fund & Archive Of Recorded Poetry And Literature. (1955) Poets I have known a lecture and poetry reading. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/93842946/.

MLA citation style:

Dunsany, Lord, Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry And Literature Fund, and Archive Of Recorded Poetry And Literature. Poets I have known a lecture and poetry reading. 1955. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/93842946/>.