Audio Recording National Poetry Festival. October 22, 1962, sessions

Title

• National Poetry Festival. October 22, 1962, sessions

Names

• National Poetry Festival (1962 : Washington, D.C.)
• Mumford, L. Quincy (Lawrence Quincy), 1903-1982
• Rago, Henry, 1915-1969
• Zabel, Morton Dauwen, 1901-1964
• Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970
• Kunitz, Stanley, 1905-2006
• Basler, Roy P. (Roy Prentice), 1906-1989
• Adams, Léonie, 1899-1988
• Meredith, William, 1919-2007
• Nemerov, Howard, 1920-1991
• Ransom, John Crowe, 1888-1974
• Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-1980
• Schwartz, Delmore, 1913-1966
• Shapiro, Karl, 1913-2000
• Van Doren, Mark, 1894-1972
• Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977
• Heckscher, August, 1913-1997
• Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965
• Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund
• Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

• 1962.

Contents

• Reel 1. Monday morning session. The role of the poetry journal: Introduction / by L. Quincy Mumford ; Opening remarks and introduction of speakers / by Henry Rago ; The poetry journal in our time / by Morton Dauwen Zabel ; The role of the poetry journal / by Louise Bogan ; The role of the poetry journal / by Stanley Kunitz ; Discussion --
• Reel 2. Monday afternoon session. Poetry readings: Opening remarks and introduction of speakers / by Roy P. Basler -- Bell tower ; Death and the lady ; Time and spirit ; Grapes making ; The font in the forest ; Alas, kind element! ; Words for the raker of leaves / Léonie Adams -- The open sea ; Roots ; For Guillaume Apollinaire / William Meredith -- Santa Claus ; To the mannequins ; To Clio, muse of history / Howard Nemerov -- Prelude to an evening / John Crowe Ransom -- Song ; Waterlily fire / Muriel Rukeyser -- The ballad of the children of the czar ; At a solemn musick ; Darkling summer, ominous dusk, rumorous rain ; In the green morning, now, once more ; Swift / Delmore Schwartz -- The bourgeois poet [excerpts] / Karl Shapiro -- This amber sunstream ; Morning worship ; Dunce songs / Mark Van Doren --
• Reel 2 (con't). Song tournament : new style ; Long feud ; At the bottom of the well ; Coal fire ; Food and drink ; Edgar A. Guest considers the good old woman who lived in a shoe and the good old truths simultaneously / Louis Untermeyer --
• Reel 3. Monday evening session. Fifty years of American poetry: Opening remarks and introduction of August Heckscher / by L. Quincy Mumford ; Greetings / by August Heckscher, special consultant on the Arts to the president ; Introduction of Randall Jarrell / by L. Quincy Mumford ; Fifty years of American poetry / by Randall Jarrell.

Headings

• -  American poetry--Congresses
• -  American poetry--20th century

Notes

• -  First day proceedings recorded Oct. 22, 1962, 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. 177-178.

Medium

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

Call Number/Physical Location

• LWO 3868, reel 1-3

Library of Congress Control Number

• 95770480

Online Format

• audio

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/95770480

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