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Audio Recording The First Johns Hopkins Poetry Festival poets delivering lectures and reading their poems, with comment, at The First Johns Hopkins Poetry Festival, held at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., Nov. 5-11, 1958.

The First Johns Hopkins Poetry Festival poets delivering lectures and reading their poems, with comment, at The First Johns Hopkins Poetry Festival, held at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., Nov. 5-11, 1958.
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  • The First Johns Hopkins Poetry Festival poets delivering lectures and reading their poems, with comment, at The First Johns Hopkins Poetry Festival, held at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., Nov. 5-11, 1958.

Names

  • Johns Hopkins Poetry Festival (1st : 1958)
  • Blackmur, R. P. (Richard P.), 1904-1965.
  • Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962.
  • Frost, Robert, 1874-1963.
  • MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982.
  • Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.
  • Ransom, John Crowe, 1888-1974.
  • Van Doren, Mark, 1894-1972.
  • Winters, Yvor, 1900-1968.
  • Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 1958.

Contents

  • Reel 9 (Nov. 5) The poetry of Edwin Muir : lecture / Richard P. Blackmur -- Reel 6 (Nov. 9) E.E. Cummings reads from his collection, 95 poems: Now air is air ; Crazy jay blue ; Because you take life in your stride ; Dominic has ; Maggie and milly and molly and may ; So shy shy shy ; In time of daffodils ; That melancholy ; What got him was nothing ; Thanksgiving (1956) ; Laughing to find anyone's blind ; Out of the lie of no ; Whatever's merely wilful ; Let's from some loud unworld's most rightful wrong -- I am a little church ; Joyful your complete fearless and pure love ; Rosetree, rosetree you're a song to see ; If up's the word, and a world grows greener.
  • Reel 5 (Nov. 9) Robert Frost reads from his poetry: The objection to being stepped on ; The secret sits ; Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on thee ; Mending wall ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening ; Away! ; One more brevity ; Birches ; The road not taken ; Sand dunes ; A drumlin woodchuck ; Departmental ; A considerable speck ; The most of it [two readings] ; The gift outright. --
  • Reel 3 (Nov. 8) Archibald MacLeish reads from his poetry: Invocation to the social muse ; Reasons for music ; The renovated temple ; Ezry ; The infinite reason ; Bahamas ; You, Andrew Marvell ; L'an trentiesme de mon eage ; The old man to the lizard ; With age wisdom ; Years of the dog ; From The Happy marriage and other poems: They say they are one flesh. Throwing a careless pebble in the lake. Beside her in the dark the chime ; Not marble nor the gilded monuments ; Words in time --
  • Reel 2 (Nov. 8) Marianne Moore reads from her poetry: O to be a dragon ; What are years ; Bulwarked againt fate ; No better than a withered daffodil ; The mind is an enchanting thing ; The Arctic ox (or goat) ; Silence ; The sycamore ; From The fables of La Fontaine: The grasshopper and the ant. The farmer and the adder ; A jellyfish ; From The fables of La Fontaine: The dog who dropped substance for shadow. The mountain in labor -- Reel 8 (Nov. 10) Dame Edith Sitwell : lecture / Marianne Moore --
  • Reel 4 (Nov. 8) John Crowe Ransom reads from his poetry: Bells for John Whiteside's daughter ; Janet waking ; Necrological ; Her eyes ; Our two worthies ; Survey of literature ; The equilibrists ; Prelude to an evening ; Painted head -- Reel 10 (Nov. 11) The poetry of Thomas Hardy, which includes the reading of several of Hardy's poems : lecture and reading / Mark Van Doren --
  • Reel 7 (Nov. 7) Poetic styles old and new (includes the reading of Shakespeare's sonnets 66 and 107) : lecture and reading / Yvor Winters -- Ree1 1 (Nov. 8) Yvor Winters reads from his poetry: The journey (Snake River country) ; Before disaster (winter 1932-1933) ; Orpheus (in memory of Hart Crane) ; John Sutter ; The California oaks ; On rereading a passage from John Muir ; Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight ; Time and garden ; In praise of California wines ; A summer commentary ; Summer noon : 1941 ; To a military rifle 1942 ; Night of battle--Europe : 1944 as regarded from a great distance ; An ode on the despoilers of learning in an American University 1947 ; To the Holy Spirit, from a deserted graveyard in the Salinas Valley ; To the moon.

Headings

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

Notes

  • -  Gift given to the Library of Congress in 1958 for inclusion in the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature.
  • -  Contents are arranged alphabetically under speaker's name.
  • -  Literary recordings, rev., enl. ed., p. 122-123.
  • -  Preservation master. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Magnetic Recording Laboratory, 1973. 10 sound tape reels : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono. ; 10 in.

Medium

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

Call Number/Physical Location

  • RAA 42112-42121 (archival acetates -- not for playback)
  • LWO 2905, reel 1-10 (preservation master)

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 96702447

Online Format

  • audio

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Johns Hopkins Poetry Festival, R. P Blackmur, E. E Cummings, Robert Frost, Archibald Macleish, Marianne Moore, John Crowe Ransom, Mark Van Doren, Yvor Winters, and Archive Of Recorded Poetry And Literature. The First Johns Hopkins Poetry Festival poets delivering lectures and reading their poems, with comment, at The First Johns Hopkins Poetry Festival, held at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., Nov. 5-11. 1958. Audio. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/96702447/.

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Johns Hopkins Poetry Festival, Blackmur, R. P., Cummings, E. E., Frost, R., Macleish, A., Moore, M. [...] Archive Of Recorded Poetry And Literature. (1958) The First Johns Hopkins Poetry Festival poets delivering lectures and reading their poems, with comment, at The First Johns Hopkins Poetry Festival, held at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., Nov. 5-11. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/96702447/.

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Johns Hopkins Poetry Festival, et al. The First Johns Hopkins Poetry Festival poets delivering lectures and reading their poems, with comment, at The First Johns Hopkins Poetry Festival, held at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., Nov. 5-11. 1958. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/96702447/>.