Terms of Access and Use:
There is no restriction on access to the collection for research use. Particularly fragile items may be restricted for preservation purposes.
Requests for permission to publish material from the collection should be directed to the Archives and Special Collections. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights.
59 spoken word phonograph recordings, commercially produced, which include poetry readings primarily featuring the work of notable American authors, speeches and interviews. Authors include Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, Dylan Thomas, John Updike and Frank Lloyd Wright.
There is no restriction on access to the collection for research use. Particularly fragile items may be restricted for preservation purposes.
Requests for permission to publish material from the collection should be directed to the Archives and Special Collections. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights.
Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:
[Identification of item], in Phonograph Collection of Poetry and Spoken Word Recordings [Box #, Folder #], Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library.
Processed in November 2004 by Peter A. Nelson.
Contact Information |
Amherst College Archives and Special
Collections Robert Frost Library PO Box 5000 Amherst, MA 01002-5000 Phone: (413) 542-2299 Fax: (413) 542-2692 Email Reference Form: http://www.amherst.edu/library/archives/askus URL: http://www.amherst.edu/library/archives |
Poems and Letters of Emily Dickinson, Read by Julie Harris (2 copies)
| 1960 | Box 1: folder 1-2 | |
Julie Harris in The Belle of Amherst, a play based on the life of Emily Dickinson by William Luce
| 1976 | Box 1: folder 3 | |
Side One: Fourteen Poems by Emily Dickinson Side Two: Selections from "The Temple" by George Herbert. Read by Austin Warren
| n.d. | Box 1: folder 4 | |
The Poems of Emily Dickinson, read by Nancy Wickwire
| n.d. | Box 1: folder 5 | |
W.E.B. DuBois, A Recorded Autobiography. Interview by Moses Asch
| 1961 | Box 1: folder 6 | |
W.C. Fields - Side One: Temperance Lecture Side Two: The Day I Drank a Glass of Water | n.d. | Box 1: folder 7 | |
Twentieth Century Poetry in English, Robert Frost Library of Congress Recording Laboratory
| 1948 | Box 1: folder 8 | |
Robert Frost Reads | 1954 | Box 1: folder 9 | |
Robert Frost: Dartmouth Commencement
| 1955 | Box 1: folder 10 | |
To the Fairest College, This is Amherst in Song Introduction by Robert Frost
| 1956 | Box 1: folder 11 | |
Robert Frost Reads His Poetry (6 copies)
| 1956 | Box 1: folder 12-17 | |
World Wide Excerpt of 3-31-57 | 1957 | Box 1: folder 18 | |
Derry Down Derry, A narrative reading by Lesley Frost of poems by Robert Frost (including selections from "You Come Too") | 1961 | Box 1: folder 19 | |
Yale Series of Recorded Poets, Robert Frost (2 copies)
| 1961 | Box 1: folder 20-21 | |
Robert Frost Reads the Poems of Robert Frost (3 copies)
| n.d. | Box 1: folder 22-24 | |
Robert Frost reading and interviewing, BBC Side 1 of 3
| n.d. | Box 1: folder 25 | |
Robert Frost reading and interviewing, BBC
| n.d. | Box 1: folder 26 | |
National Council of Teachers of English. "Robert Frost Reading His Poems"
| n.d. | Box 1: folder 26a | |
Robert Frost reading, National Council of Teachers of English, Death of a Hired Man Parts I and II | n.d. | Box 2: folder 27 | |
Robert Frost reading, National Council of Teachers of English, Death of a Hired Man Part III, other poems
| n.d. | Box 2: folder 28 | |
Robert Frost reading, National Council of Teachers of English, Mending Wall, Dust of Snow, Birches | n.d. | Box 2: folder 29 | |
Robert Frost reading, National Council of Teachers of English, The Runaway, The road not taken, etc. | n.d. | Box 2: folder 30 | |
Robert Frost reading, National Council of Teachers of English, The Runaway, etc. Record II
| n.d. | Box 2: folder 31 | |
Robert Frost reading, National Council of Teachers of English, Death of a Hired Man Parts I and II.Record III
| n.d. | Box 2: folder 32 | |
Robert Frost reading, National Council of Teachers of English, The Pasture, etc. Record V
| n.d. | Box 2: folder 33 | |
Robert Frost reading, National Council of Teachers of English, Death of a Hired Man Part III, etc. Record VI
| n.d. | Box 2: folder 34 | |
Robert Frost reading, National Council of Teachers of English, Reluctance, etc. Record VI
| n.d. | Box 2: folder 35 | |
Robert Frost Reading His Own Poems, National Council of Teachers of English, Record 1 (3 copies)
| n.d. | Box 2: folder 36-38 | |
Robert Frost Reading His Own Poems, National Council of Teachers of English, Record 2 (3 copies)
| n.d. | Box 2: folder 39-41 | |
The Voice and Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi | n.d. | Box 2: folder 42 | |
James Joyce reading "Anna Livia Plurabelle"
| n.d. | Box 2: folder 43 | |
Speaking Personally, Bertrand Russell
| n.d. | Box 2: folder 44 | |
Bernard Shaw Speaks | 1937 | Box 3: folder 45 | |
Genevieve Taggard
| n.d. | Box 3: folder 46 | |
Dylan Thomas, Selections from the Writings of Dylan Thomas, Read by the Poet | 1952 | Box 3: folder 47 | |
Dylan Thomas Reading | 1952 | Box 3: folder 48 | |
Dylan Thomas Reading | 1952 | Box 3: folder 49 | |
John Updike Reading from his Works | n.d. | Box 3: folder 50 | |
John Updike Reads From Couples and Pigeon Feathers
| n.d. | Box 3: folder 51 | |
John Updike Reads From Couples and Pigeon Feathers
| n.d. | Box 3: folder 52 | |
The Drift of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Read by William L. Moore
| n.d. | Box 3: folder 53 | |
William Carlos Williams Reading his Own Poems | 1945 | Box 3: folder 54 | |
Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture, Record I | 1951 | Box 3: folder 55 | |
Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture, Record II | 1951 | Box 3: folder 56 | |
Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture, Record III | 1952 | Box 3: folder 57 | |
Frank Lloyd Wright on Record | 1956 | Box 3: folder 55 | |
The Caedmon Treasury of Modern Poets, Side 1: T.S. Eliot and Side 4: Robert Frost, W.C. Williams, Wallace Stevens, Richard Eberhart, Elizabeth Bishop, Richard Wilbur | n.d. | Box 3: folder 56 | |
The Caedmon Treasury of Modern Poets, Side 2: W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, Edith Sitwell, Dylan Thomas, Louis Macniece, Robert Graves, and Side 3: Gertrude Stein, Archibald MacLeish, E.E. Cummings, Marianne Moore, William Empson, Stephen Spender, Conrad Aiken | n.d. | Box 3: folder 57 | |
Treasury of 100 Modern American Poets: Robert Pack, John Hollander, John Updike, Sylvia Plath, Mark Strand, Robert Kelly | n.d. | Box 3: folder 58 | |