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Audio Recording Academy of American Poets thirty-fifth anniversary program Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Bogan, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Lowell, Allen Tate, and John Hall Wheelock, chancellors of the academy, reading their poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, May 5, 1969

Academy of American Poets thirty-fifth anniversary program

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Title

  • Academy of American Poets thirty-fifth anniversary program Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Bogan, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Lowell, Allen Tate, and John Hall Wheelock, chancellors of the academy, reading their poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, May 5, 1969

Names

  • Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979
  • Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970
  • Fitzgerald, Robert, 1910-1985
  • Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977
  • Tate, Allen, 1899-1979
  • Wheelock, John Hall, 1886-1978
  • Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund
  • Academy of American Poets
  • Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 1969.

Contents

  • From The complete poems: Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore ; Visits to St. Elizabeths ; View of the Capitol from the Library of Congress / Elizabeth Bishop -- From The blue estuaries : poems, 1923-1968: Medusa ; The crossed apple ; To my brother, killed : Haumont Wood, October 1918 ; Cartography ; Three songs (psychiatrist's song) / Louise Bogan -- From In the rose of time : poems, 1931-1956 : Colorado ; Catullus, CI ; Pacific / Robert Fitzgerald -- Ivory, in her black, and all intent upon her instrument ; Aerial / Robert Fitzgerald -- From Notebook, 1967-68: The mouth of the Hudson ; July in Washington; Stalin ; These winds ; River god / Robert Lowell -- From Poems: Seasons of the soul, Part II, Autumn ; Last days of Alice ; The swimmers / Allen Tate -- From The Gardener and other poems: Reverie on the nature of things ; Sunday morning moment ; Song on reaching seventy [retitled on this tape Song on reaching eighty] / John Hall Wheelock.

Notes

  • -  L. Quincy Mumford introduces Marie Bullock, president of the academy; William Jay Smith introduces the poets.
  • -  Sponsored by the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., in association with the Academy of American Poets.
  • -  Recorded for the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Medium

  • 1 sound tape reel (ca. 85 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono. ; 10 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LWO 5678

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 96701413

Online Format

  • audio

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Chicago citation style:

Bishop, Elizabeth, Louise Bogan, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Lowell, Allen Tate, John Hall Wheelock, Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry And Literature Fund, Academy Of American Poets, and Archive Of Recorded Poetry And Literature. Academy of American Poets thirty-fifth anniversary program Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Bogan, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Lowell, Allen Tate, and John Hall Wheelock, chancellors of the academy, reading their poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, May 5. 1969. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/96701413/.

APA citation style:

Bishop, E., Bogan, L., Fitzgerald, R., Lowell, R., Tate, A., Wheelock, J. H. [...] Archive Of Recorded Poetry And Literature. (1969) Academy of American Poets thirty-fifth anniversary program Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Bogan, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Lowell, Allen Tate, and John Hall Wheelock, chancellors of the academy, reading their poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, May 5. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/96701413/.

MLA citation style:

Bishop, Elizabeth, et al. Academy of American Poets thirty-fifth anniversary program Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Bogan, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Lowell, Allen Tate, and John Hall Wheelock, chancellors of the academy, reading their poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, May 5. 1969. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/96701413/>.