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Audio Recording Basil Rathbone reading in the Coolidge Auditorium, March 23, 1952

Basil Rathbone reading in the Coolidge Auditorium, March 23, 1952
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Title

  • Basil Rathbone reading in the Coolidge Auditorium, March 23, 1952

Names

  • Rathbone, Basil, 1892-1967. prf
  • Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund.
  • Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 1952.

Contents

  • The ballad of a barber / Aubrey Beardsely -- To Olivia ; Daisy / Francis Thompson -- The unforgotten ; In memoriam / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Sonnet (Oh! death will find me, long before I tire) ; The call / Rupert Brooke -- Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats -- The nightingale and the rose / Oscar Wilde -- Ode to the west wind / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- From A Shropshire lad / A.E. Housman -- Love's philosophy / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- How do I love thee / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- A woman's last word / Robert Browning -- Sonnet CXVI ; Romeo and Juliet [excerpt] ; Macbeth [excerpt] ; Hamlet [excerpt] / William Shakespeare -- For future reference / Stephen Vincent Benét -- The Gospel according to St. John [the Resurrection] from the Bible.

Notes

  • -  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. 199-200.
  • -  Preservation master. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Magnetic Recording Laboratory, 1973. 1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono. ; 10 in.
  • -  Cataloging based on container/printed material/LC paperwork.

Medium

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

Call Number/Physical Location

  • RAA 41248 (original acetate -- not for playback)
  • LWO 1961 (preservation master)

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 93842955

Online Format

  • audio

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Rights & Access

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Chicago citation style:

Rathbone, Basil, . Prf, Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry And Literature Fund, and Archive Of Recorded Poetry And Literature. Basil Rathbone reading in the Coolidge Auditorium. 1952. Audio. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/93842955/.

APA citation style:

Rathbone, B., Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry And Literature Fund & Archive Of Recorded Poetry And Literature. (1952) Basil Rathbone reading in the Coolidge Auditorium. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/93842955/.

MLA citation style:

Rathbone, Basil, . Prf, Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry And Literature Fund, and Archive Of Recorded Poetry And Literature. Basil Rathbone reading in the Coolidge Auditorium. 1952. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/93842955/>.