Twentieth Century Poets In English: Nine Pulitzer Prize Poets Reading Their Own Poems
Archibald MacLeish, Peter Viereck, Theodore Roethke, Richard Wilbur, Robert Penn Warren, Stanley Kunitz, W. D. Snodgrass, Phyllis McGinley, Alan Dugan
- Label
- The Library Of Congress
- Catalog number
- PL 29
- Format
- LP · Compilation
- Country
- US
- Released
- 1963
- Genre
- Non-Music
What’s on it
Twentieth Century Poets In English: Nine Pulitzer Prize Poets Reading Their Own Poems has 26 tracks.
- A1aPoem In Prose
- A1bYou, Andrew Marvell
- A1cArs Poetica
- A1dL'an Trentiesme de Mon Eage
- A2aObsessed by Her Beauty
- A2bWhich of Us Two?
- A3aInterlude
- A3bVernal Sentiment
- A3cThe Cycle
- A3dMy Papa's Waltz
- A4aLove Calls Us to the Things of This World
- A4bFrancis Jammes: A Prayer To Go To Paradise With The Donkeys
- A5aBearded Oaks
- A5bGully's Cry
- B1aThe Thief
- B1bEnd Of Summer
- B2aChild Of My Winter
- B2dSong [Sweet beast]
- B3aThe Day After Sunday
- B3bThe Temptation Of Saint Anthony
- B3cSimeon Stylites
- B3dPortrait Of Girl With Comic Book
- B4aLove Song: I and Thou
- B4bPhilodendron
- B4cMorning Song
- B4dNotes Toward A Spring Offensive
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Where it came from
The Twentieth Century Poets in English series was initiated by the Library of Congress to preserve the voices of significant American literary figures for posterity. Released in 1963, this specific volume, cataloged as PL 29, serves as an audio archive featuring nine winners of the Pulitzer Prize. By capturing these poets reading their own compositions, the Library of Congress intended to create an authentic sonic record that captured the intended cadence, emphasis, and emotional texture of the verses as envisioned by the authors themselves.
The selection includes esteemed poets such as Archibald MacLeish, Theodore Roethke, and Robert Penn Warren, representing a cross-section of the mid-century American poetic canon. The design of the recording is purely functional, emphasizing archival clarity and academic documentation rather than commercial appeal. Upon its release, the record was primarily distributed to libraries, universities, and literary scholars, establishing itself as a foundational resource for the study of 20th-century American oral literature and the formal development of modern poetic expression.
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