| Description |
5 sound discs : 78 rpm ; 12 in. |
| Series |
Twentieth century poetry in English
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| Note |
Library of Congress: P 36-40. |
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Library of Congress: LC 1780-1788. |
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Title from container. |
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In one container. |
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Notes on authors and texts of poems in container. |
| Contents |
Three poems from a text, Isaiah LXI: Beauty for ashes; The oil of joy for mourning; A garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness / Blackmur -- An elementary school class room in a slum ; The landscape near an aerodrome ; The pylons ; An 'I' can never be a great man ; I think continually of those who were truly great ; A stopwatch and an ordnance map / Spender -- Faustina, or Rock roses ; Jeronimo's house ; At the fishhouses / Bishop -- The lost son / Roethke -- A thrush in the moonlight ; Against the cold: sonnets 14, 18 and 20 ; A dance for rain / Bynner. |
| Event |
Blackmur, Spender, Roethke, and Bynner were recorded at the Library of Congress in 1948; Bishop was recorded there in 1949. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Blackmur, R. P. (Richard P.), 1904-1965.
Poems. Selections.
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Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995
Poems. Selections.
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Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979.
Poems. Selections.
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Roethke, Theodore, 1908-1963.
Lost son.
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Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968
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| Added Title |
Richard Blackmur reading his own poems.
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Stephen Spender reading his own poems.
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Elizabeth Bishop reading her own poems.
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Theodore Roethke reading his own poems.
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Witter Bynner reading his own poems.
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| Music No. |
P VIII (set) Library of Congress Reference Department |
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P 36-40 Library of Congress |
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LC 1780-1788 Library of Congress |
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