Phonograph Collection of Poetry and Spoken Word Recordings

Phonograph Collection of Poetry and Spoken Word Recordings, ca. 1937-1976

3 archives boxes (1.5 linear ft.)

Abstract:

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.

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Restrictions on access:

There is no restriction on access to the collection for research use. Particularly fragile items may be restricted for preservation purposes.

Restrictions on use:

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.

Amherst College Archives and Special Collections
Amherst, MA

Scope and Contents of the Collection

Information on Use

Terms of Access and Use

Restrictions on access:

There is no restriction on access to the collection for research use. Particularly fragile items may be restricted for preservation purposes.

Restrictions on use:

Preferred Citation

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.

History of the Collection

Processing Information

Processed in November 2004 by Peter A. Nelson.

Additional Information

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

Language

English

Contents List

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

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