Recorded poetry and poetic reception from edna millay to the circle of robert lowell

✍ Scribed by Furr, D

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 207
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Listening to poets read their work focuses critical attention on the craft of the poem, while raising questions about the relationship between social history, technology, and the poet’s “voice.”Recorded Poetry and Poetic Reception from Edna Millay to the Circle of Robert Lowelloffers an analysis of a wide range of recordings, from commercial and amateur, to official studio sessions, to ephemeral events captured on reel-to-reel tape. Through the mid-century performances of poets such as Elizabeth Bishop, Dylan Thomas and Anne Sexton, Derek Furr draws penetrating new conclusions about how and why poetry was recorded in the U.S. from the 1930s to the 1970s.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction: Listening to Recorded Poetry......Page 10
Part I: In the Studio, On the Stage......Page 34
1 Making Poetry Records, Remaking Poetic Voices: Caedmon and the Library of Congress......Page 36
2 Poets and Critics Live at the Forum: The Occasional Recording and Elizabeth Bishop......Page 62
Part II: In First Person, In Another’s Voice......Page 90
3 Authenticity and Audience: Millay, Sexton, and Vocal Connections......Page 92
4 Impersonations: Poets, Preachers, Teachers, and the Remaking of God’s Trombones......Page 124
Afterword: Out of the Audio Archive......Page 154
Appendix A: Learning to Listen: Poetry Recordings in the Classroom......Page 160
Appendix B: Selected List of Modernist Audio Archives......Page 176
Notes......Page 178
Bibliography......Page 190
Index......Page 202