Audio Recording National Poetry Festival. October 23, 1962, sessions

Title

• National Poetry Festival. October 23, 1962, sessions

Names

• National Poetry Festival (1962 : Washington, D.C.)
• Basler, Roy P. (Roy Prentice), 1906-1989
• Wilbur, Richard, 1921-2017
• Deutsch, Babette, 1895-1982
• Nemerov, Howard, 1920-1991
• Shapiro, Karl, 1913-2000
• Berryman, John, 1914-1972
• Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970
• Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000
• Cunningham, J. V. (James Vincent), 1911-1985
• Eberhart, Richard, 1904-2005
• Engle, Paul, 1908-1991
• Rago, Henry, 1915-1969
• Snodgrass, W. D. (William De Witt), 1926-2009
• Tate, Allen, 1899-1979
• Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977
• Frost, Robert, 1874-1963
• Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund
• Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

• 1962.

Contents

• Reel 1. Tuesday morning session. The poet and the public: Opening remarks / by Roy P. Basler ; Introduction of speakers / by Richard Wilbur ; The poet and the public / by Babette Deutsch ; The muse's interest / by Howard Nemerov ; What is a public / by Karl Shapiro ; Discussion --
• Reel 2. Tuesday afternoon session: Poetry readings. Opening remarks and introduction of speakers / by Roy P. Basler -- Filling her compact & delicious body ; Of 1826 ; Four dream songs [II] ; The lay of Ike ; Twelve dream songs [IX] ; Twelve dream songs [IV] ; Four dream songs [I] / John Berryman -- Old countryside ; The sleeping fury ; Evening in the sanitarium ; Song for the last act / Louise Bogan -- Kitchenette building ; The preacher : ruminates behind the sermon ; The progress ; The children of the poor [pts. 1, 2, and 5] ; Nora ; The ballad of Rudolph Reed ; We real cool : the pool players ; Seven at the golden shovel / Gwendolyn Brooks -- To my wife ; Epigrams : a journal ; XI: When I shall be without regret ; To the reader ; The true religion ; Friend, on this scaffold ; Lip was man who used his head ; Lady, of anonymous flesh ; And what is love ; I write you in my need / James Vincent Cunningham --
• Reel 2 (con't). Hark back ; A New England view : my report ; Rainscapes, hydrangeas, roses, and singing birds ; Dream journey of the head and heart ; The gesture ; The rush ; Meditation two / Richard Eberhart -- Beasts ; Sonnet LXXII from American child ; Self-portrait : Vincent Van Gogh ; The Count Duke of Olivares : Velasquez ; Venus and the lute player ; The English dandy at the Moulin Rouge, Toulouse-Lautrec ; Fossil ; The word and the poet / Paul Engle -- A sky of late summer ; The promising / Henry Rago -- Lovers go fly a kite ; The examination ; Monet : Les Nymphéas ; Translation from Christian Morgenstern : Palmstrom ; The spheres ; To a nightingale / William De Witt Snodgrass ; The wolves ; The swimmers / Allen Tate --
• Reel 3. Tuesday evening session. Introduction of speaker / by Louis Untemeyer -- October ; November ; Away! ; Our doom to bloom ; Provide, provide ; Immortality, by Matthew Arnold [excerpt] ; The draft horse ; Closed for good ; In winter in the woods alone ; The tuft of flowers ; Precaution ; The span of life ; In Divés' dive ; It is from having stood contrasted ; Choice ; Lines written in dejection on the eve of great success ; Choose something like a star ; The gift outright ; The phoenix, by Arthur Christopher Benson ; An Horation ode upon Cromwell's return from Ireland, by Andrew Marvell [excerpt] ; Mending wall / Robert Frost.

Headings

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

Notes

• -  Second day proceedings recorded Oct. 23, 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. 178-179.

Medium

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

Call Number/Physical Location

• LWO 3869, reel 1-3

Library of Congress Control Number

• 95770481

Online Format

• audio

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/95770481

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