Audio Recording Radio program in celebration of the centenary of the birth of Harriet Monroe

Title

• Radio program in celebration of the centenary of the birth of Harriet Monroe

Summary

• A composite of actual voices of famous poets, mostly Americans, reading from their works.

Names

• Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936.
• Zabel, Morton Dauwen, 1901-1964.
• Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931.
• Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967.
• Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950.
• Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
• Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.
• Frost, Robert, 1874-1963.
• Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
• Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972.
• Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950.
• Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963.
• Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.
• Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955.
• Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

• 1960.

Contents

• The winds of the world are blowing / by Harriet Monroe ; read by Morton Dauwen Zabel -- General William Booth enters into heaven / Vachel Lindsay -- Grass ; Put the city up ; Southern Pacific ; Prayers of steel ; Cool tombs / Carl Sandburg -- From Spoon River anthology : Ann Rutledge ; Lucinda Matlock / Edgar Lee Masters -- Eros Turannos / by Edwin Arlington Robinson ; read by M.D. Zabel -- Canto I / Ezra Pound -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot -- The pasture ; Acquainted with the night ; Tree at my window / Robert Frost -- The lake isle of Innisfree ; Coole Parke and Ballylee [selected stanzas] ; The song of the old mother / William Butler Yeats --
• Chamber music (selections) / by James Joyce ; read by Padraic Colum -- Travel ; Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The Botticellian trees / William Carlos Williams -- The fish ; The mind is an enchanting thing / Marianne Moore -- Large red man reading ; This solitude of cataracts / Wallace Stevens -- Olympia ; At the edge / by Harriet Monroe ; read by M.D. Zabel.

Headings

• -  American poetry--20th century

Notes

• -  Broadcast Dec. 22, 1960, on radio station WFMT, Chicago.
• -  Gift given to the Library of Congress in 1961 for inclusion in the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature.
• -  Literary recordings, rev., enl. ed., p. 275-276.
• -  Preservation master. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Magnetic Recording Laboratory, 1978. On 2 sound tape reels : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.

Medium

• 1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 5 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

• LWO 3246 (archival acetate -- not for playback)
• LWO 12419, reel 82-83 (preservation master)

Library of Congress Control Number

• 95770630

Online Format

• audio

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/95770630

Additional Metadata Formats

• MARCXML Record
• MODS Record
• Dublin Core Record