Poetry reading with commentary: William Carlos Williams at Hanover College on May 16, 1952 #841

CLASSIFICATION

Swallow ID:
5574
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Title:
Reading in BC Collection
Source Collection ID:
MsC 199
Source Collection Description:
Reading in BC collection was assembled during the late 1970s and ‘80s. There are approximately 1000 tapes in this collection. It consists of the recordings of Canadian and American writers, mostly poets, reading poems, talking, being interviewed, participating in panel discussions, and so on. Most of the recordings were made in BC, but there are some made elsewhere in Canada or the USA. Quite a few of these recordings are unique copies, not to be found elsewhere.
Source Collection Contributing Unit:
SFU Library
Source Collection URI:
Source Collection Image URL:
Sub Series Title:
Reading in BC Collection

ITEM DESCRIPTION

Title:
Poetry reading with commentary: William Carlos Williams at Hanover College on May 16, 1952 #841
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Identifiers:
[]

Rights

Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)

CREATORS

Name:
Swigg, Richard
Notes:
General Editor

Name:
Baker, Richard J
Notes:
Editor

Name:
Bradbury, Cliff
Notes:
Sound Engineer

Name:
Crick, Jeremy
Notes:
The program designed by him

Name:
Williams, William Carlos
Dates:
1883-1963

Name:
Pargeter, Mark
Notes:
Business Manager

CONTRIBUTORS



MATERIAL DESCRIPTION

Image:
Image
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Sound Quality:
Good
Physical Condition:
Good
Other Physical Description:
Black and white clear jewel case with J-card

DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION

Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:49:20
Size:
64.1 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files

Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:45:41
Size:
57.7 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files

Dates

Date:
1952-05-16
Type:
Production Date
Source:
J-card
Notes:
Recording by the courtesy of Hanover college

LOCATION

Address:
Ball Drive, Hanover, Jefferson County, Indiana, 47243, United States
Venue:
Hanover College
Latitude:
38.7141725
Longitude:
-85.4610948

CONTENT

Contents:
Side 1 : 16 May 1952 : Synopsis : “Poems” not poetry ; Babies rather than adults ; Using the material of your own lives in poetry ; The new poetic measurement ; Wrong thinking in war and poetry versus a new world ; The necessity of the artist to alert us ; Toynbee quotation and the American inheritance of an ideal ; Whitman braking the verse-line ; Freneau, Bridges, Hardy, Ransom ; Necessarily slow changes in society and line Reads “Smell!” and from Paterson II iii: “Look for the nul” to “endless and indestructible” Side 2 : 16 ay 1952 : Portent ; The Botticellian Trees ; Flowers by the Sea ; To a Mexican Pig-Bank (two readings) ; To a Poor Old Woman ; Pastoral (“When I was younger”) ; To Elsie
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting

NOTES

Note:
Special thanks are expressed Walter D Morrill and the staff of the Duggan Library, Hanover college

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