CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
5576
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:
The Collected Recordings: William Carlos Williams lecture at University of Washington on May 8, 1955 #844
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:
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Sound Quality:
Excellent
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:
T00:31:19
Size:
40.3 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:31:22
Size:
39.3 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1955-05-08
Type:
Production Date
Source:
J-card
LOCATION
Address:
St. Louis, United Brooklyn Avenue Northeast, University District, Seattle, King County, Washington, 98105-6286, United States
Venue:
University of Washington
Latitude:
38.64724015
Longitude:
-90.3084017323959
CONTENT
Contents:
Side 1 : Synopsis : The poem as a cry in the night ; The hysteric level and In the American Grain ; “A Black, black cloud” ; illustrated Dante ; The past and the new ; Shakespeare , Leonardo, Chinese painters, Pyrenean rock painters ; The language of the new : not English (the “robin”) not the class room, not copying authors from Beowulf to Rimbaud ; Rebirth ; Unrhyming and lower-case nonconformity ; Pound, Imagism, the Chinese : cutting out rhetoric ; Whitman : “free” verse, limitations, and structural innovation ; Lines from Song of Myself – Whitman’s self-delusion ; Mother’s anecdote about Coquelin
Side 2 : May 1955 : Pound and the piano strings – Studying Pope at Harvard ; Cocteau’s realite and the poem’s dependence on structure ;The poem as object versus involvement in the emotional situation ; The “cry in the night ; modern poems and undeemed structure ; Auditory image and visual image ; Division of the line in Pound, Eliot, Char ; neglect of auditory image ; Poem’s structure and intellectual and moral make up – Modern poetic irregularities and relativity ; Poe, mathematics and poetry ; Hopkins and Whitman ; Poet’s logic and structure ; Escaping the totalitarian form ; The ideal state and the modern poem’s structure ; Discipline freer measure, yet not formless scrawls
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
Note:
Special thanks are expressed to Carole E Prietto, the university archivist at the University of Washington, St. Louis.
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