Audio Recording National Poetry Festival. October 24, 1962, sessions

Title

• National Poetry Festival. October 24, 1962, sessions

Names

• National Poetry Festival (1962 : Washington, D.C.)
• Basler, Roy P. (Roy Prentice), 1906-1989.
• Ransom, John Crowe, 1888-1974.
• Tate, Allen, 1899-1979.
• Adams, Léonie, 1899-1988.
• Cunningham, J. V. (James Vincent), 1911-1985.
• Blackmur, R. P. (Richard P.), 1904-1965.
• Chapin, Katherine Garrison, 1890-1977.
• Deutsch, Babette, 1895-1982.
• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
• Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965.
• Kunitz, Stanley, 1905-2006.
• Nash, Ogden, 1902-1971.
• Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982.
• Wilbur, Richard, 1921-2017.
• Williams, Oscar, 1900-1964.
• Eberhart, Richard, 1904-2005.
• Read, Herbert, 1893-1968.
• Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund.
• Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

• 1962.

Contents

• Reel 1. Wednesday morning session. The problem of form: Opening remarks / by Roy P. Basler ; Introduction of speakers / by John Crowe Ransom ; Shadow : a parable, and a polemic / by Allen Tate ; The problem of form / by Léonie Adams ; The problem of form / by James Vincent Cunningham ; Discussion --
• Reel 2. Wednesday afternoon session. Poetry readings: October frost ; Sea-odalisque ; The dead ride fast ; Mr. Virtue and the Three Bears ; The rape of Europa / Richard P. Blackmur -- At Stonehenge ; Love poem in an occupied an occupied country ; The savage flutes ; Night song ; Christmas Eve / Katherine Garrison Chapin -- Small colored boy in the subway ; Damnation ; Lizard at Pompeii ; Cézanne ; The poem / Babette Deutsch -- Still here ; American heartbreak ; Border line ; The Negro speaks of rivers ; Madam's calling cards ; Negro ; Poem ; Merry-go-round ; Cultural exchange / Langston Hughes -- The blind man's song, by Rainer Maria Rilke [Randall Jarrell, tr.] ; Losses ; Eight Air Force ; Cinderella ; The woman at the Washington Zoo / Randall Jarrell -- By lamplight ; The thing that eats the heart ; The dark and the fair ; The summing-up ; After the last dynasty ; The mound-builders / Stanley Kunitz --
• Reel 2 (con't). I do, I will, I have ; The private dining room ; Brief lives in not so brief [III] ; The shrimp ; What, no sheep? ; Laments for a dying language [III] ; Tune for an ill-tempered clavichord / Ogden Nash -- Another spring ; A sword in a cloud of light ; This night only ; An easy song ; May Day / Kenneth Rexroth -- Tartuffe, by Moliere [Richard Wilbur tr.] ; Act I [excerpts] ; A baroque wall-fountain in the Villa Sciarra ; Two voices in a meadow ; Junk / Richard Wilbur --
• Reel 3. The Last Supper ; The borrower of salt ; Shopping for meat in winter ; Why the sea is salt ; A semi-revolution, by Robert Frost ; A total revolution / Oscar Williams --
• Reel 4. Wednesday evening session. American bards and British reviewers: Introduction of speakers / by Ricard Eberhart ; American bards and British reviewers / by Sir Herbert Read.

Headings

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

Notes

• -  Third day proceedings recorded Oct. 24, 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. 179.

Medium

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

Call Number/Physical Location

• LWO 3870, reel 1-4

Library of Congress Control Number

• 95770482

Online Format

• audio

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/95770482

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