CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
5785
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
Reading in BC Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
George Bowering English 414 Lecture 17 at SFU on November 6, 1973 #676
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Title Note:
On J-card: English 414 Lecture 17 Nov. 6, 1973; W. C. Williams - Paterson Book I continued
Language:
English
Production Context:
Classroom recording
Genre:
Speeches: Talks
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Bowering, George
Dates:
1935-
Role:
"Speaker"
CONTRIBUTORS
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Image:
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Extent:
1/8 inch
Generations:
Second generation from Reel-to-Reel
Sound Quality:
Excellent
Physical Condition:
Excellent
Other Physical Description:
Black and white clear jewel case with J-card
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:30:13
Size:
34.6 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:30:30
Size:
33.2 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1973-11-06
Type:
Performance Date
Source:
J-card
LOCATION
Address:
8888 University Dr, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
Venue:
Simon Fraser University
Latitude:
49.2784
Longitude:
-122.9231
CONTENT
Contents:
Side
Track
No.
Comments
One
0000
0010
Introductory remarks – how to read Paterson (?!)
0027
The suicide of Sam Patch is touched upon, in reference to the theme of Marriage vs. Divorce/Rape
0053
“Williams works with crowds throughout Paterson…”
0069
The key phrase in Paterson in which Williams rails against divorce, which he associates with perfection, or the striving for perfection : “A bud forever green…” (p. 18)
0112
Williams looks at the rose as an image of Woman or Christ (p. 30)
0146
“Woman, earth, art, proceed; they are not captured, one cannot be the master of them”, Williams says. One cannot own language or poetry or control it without disrupting its essence
0172
Williams’s examination of two disparate girls who wish to be alike is discussed. This discussion leads into the topic of the range of beauty in nature (ugly to beautiful) and of how that range should be reflected in the language and imagery of poetry. The beauty can be found anywhere – it is how one applies the language to it that interests Williams
0220
The Freudian imagery in Paterson is touched on again by Bowering
0265
Williams views on the ‘library’ and “history, but not for the sake of the encyclopedia”, are examined
0302
“The first problem Williams has, if he looks around the city and sees people divorced from their past, divorced from their language, divorced from each other, divorced for the reasons they are doing their jobs, divorced from the possibility of devising their own schedules – he has to find and admit and lay out those faults within himself”
0372
Bowering notes that, in Paterson, we see people coming together not to share language and themselves, but they gather together as crowds to see dead bodies, to see freaks, to see false language, to rape the earth, to see outside beauty rather than their own
0432
Questions are fielded concerning Book I
0481
If the poet will allow, Bowering notes, his discrepancies, his hesitancies, all his imperfections to appear in the body of the poem, then we are lead to a consideration of the poet, the speaker, much more than we would be if we were offered a poem as a finished and perfect artifact
0492
Bowering starts on Book II. In Book II, Williams discusses ‘the appearance of contemporaries’
0547
Puritans vs. Nature is discussed; “they came across to America claiming that they were going to find and people a new world. What they actually did was to make the Old World over again its worst aspects on the American continent”
0560
Williams is like an explorer of the New World in Book II. Constraint is the major them in Book II
0600
The images of people laying in the grass are examined
0653
Lecture ends
Two
Side Two is blank
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
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