ma215 Phonograph Collection of Poetry and Spoken Word Recordings Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by Peter A. Nelson, Archivist . Amherst College Archives and Special Collections
Amherst, MA
2011 Finding aid encoded in NoteTab Pro. Encoded by Peter A. Nelson, Archivist. 2011-12-05 Finding aid written in English Collection Overview Phonograph Collection of Poetry and Spoken Word Recordings ca. 1937-1976 3 archives boxes (1.5 linear ft.) English Amherst College Archives and Special Collections
Amherst, MA
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. Scope and Contents of the Collection

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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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.

Robert Frost Collection - Series 3 - Audio-visual Material

 1 1-2 Poems and Letters of Emily Dickinson, Read by Julie Harris (2 copies) 1960 1 3 Julie Harris in The Belle of Amherst, a play based on the life of Emily Dickinson by William Luce 1976 1 4 Side One: Fourteen Poems by Emily Dickinson Side Two: Selections from "The Temple" by George Herbert. Read by Austin Warren n.d. 1 5 The Poems of Emily Dickinson, read by Nancy Wickwire n.d. 1 6 W.E.B. DuBois, A Recorded Autobiography. Interview by Moses Asch 1961 1 7 W.C. Fields - Side One: Temperance Lecture Side Two: The Day I Drank a Glass of Water n.d. 1 8 Twentieth Century Poetry in English, Robert Frost Library of Congress Recording Laboratory 1948 1 9 Robert Frost Reads 1954 1 10 Robert Frost: Dartmouth Commencement 1955 1 11 To the Fairest College, This is Amherst in Song Introduction by Robert Frost 1956 1 12-17 Robert Frost Reads His Poetry (6 copies) 1956 1 18 World Wide Excerpt of 3-31-57 1957 1 19 Derry Down Derry, A narrative reading by Lesley Frost of poems by Robert Frost (including selections from "You Come Too") 1961 1 20-21 Yale Series of Recorded Poets, Robert Frost (2 copies) 1961 1 22-24 Robert Frost Reads the Poems of Robert Frost (3 copies) n.d. 1 25 Robert Frost reading and interviewing, BBC Side 1 of 3 n.d. 1 26 Robert Frost reading and interviewing, BBC n.d. 1 26a National Council of Teachers of English. "Robert Frost Reading His Poems" n.d. 2 27 Robert Frost reading, National Council of Teachers of English, Death of a Hired Man Parts I and II n.d. 2 28 Robert Frost reading, National Council of Teachers of English, Death of a Hired Man Part III, other poems n.d. 2 29 Robert Frost reading, National Council of Teachers of English, Mending Wall, Dust of Snow, Birches n.d. 2 30 Robert Frost reading, National Council of Teachers of English, The Runaway, The road not taken, etc. n.d. 2 31 Robert Frost reading, National Council of Teachers of English, The Runaway, etc. Record II n.d. 2 32 Robert Frost reading, National Council of Teachers of English, Death of a Hired Man Parts I and II. Record III n.d. 2 33 Robert Frost reading, National Council of Teachers of English, The Pasture, etc. Record V n.d. 2 34 Robert Frost reading, National Council of Teachers of English, Death of a Hired Man Part III, etc. Record VI n.d. 2 35 Robert Frost reading, National Council of Teachers of English, Reluctance, etc. Record VI n.d. 2 36-38 Robert Frost Reading His Own Poems, National Council of Teachers of English, Record 1 (3 copies) n.d. 2 39-41 Robert Frost Reading His Own Poems, National Council of Teachers of English, Record 2 (3 copies) n.d. 2 42 The Voice and Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi n.d. 2 43 James Joyce reading "Anna Livia Plurabelle" n.d. 2 44 Speaking Personally, Bertrand Russell n.d. 3 45 Bernard Shaw Speaks 1937 3 46 Genevieve Taggard n.d. 3 47 Dylan Thomas, Selections from the Writings of Dylan Thomas, Read by the Poet 1952 3 48 Dylan Thomas Reading 1952 3 49 Dylan Thomas Reading 1952 3 50 John Updike Reading from his Works n.d. 3 51 John Updike Reads From Couples and Pigeon Feathers n.d. 3 52 John Updike Reads From Couples and Pigeon Feathers n.d. 3 53 The Drift of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Read by William L. Moore n.d. 3 54 William Carlos Williams Reading his Own Poems 1945 3 55 Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture, Record I 1951 3 56 Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture, Record II 1951 3 57 Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture, Record III 1952 3 55 Frank Lloyd Wright on Record 1956 3 56 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. 3 57 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. 3 58 Treasury of 100 Modern American Poets: Robert Pack, John Hollander, John Updike, Sylvia Plath, Mark Strand, Robert Kelly n.d.