CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
5576
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
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
Genre:
Speeches: Talks
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:
pargeter, Mark
Notes:
Business Manager
Name:
Crick, Jeremy
Notes:
The program designed by him
Name:
Williams, William Carlos
Dates:
1883-1963
Role:
"Speaker"
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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