Audio Recording W.S. Merwin reading his poems and translations with comment, Mar. 18, 1958

Title

• W.S. Merwin reading his poems and translations with comment, Mar. 18, 1958

Names

• Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-2019.
• Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

• 1958.

Contents

• From Green with beasts: Backwater pond ; The master ; Two paintings by Alfred Wallis ; Burning the cat ; After the flood ; Dog ; Evening with Lee Shore and Cliffs ; The fishermen ; The mountain ; The shipwreck ; Low fields and light ; The prodigal son ; The wakening ; The station ; Leviathan ; White goat, white ram ; The eyes of the drowned watch keels going over -- Translations of Catullus: Greetings, girl, with nose none of the smallest ; Catullus XI -- Saint Sebastian -- Translations of anonymous Spanish poets: A lament ; The ballad of the corpsekeeper ; The ballad of the gray she-wolf ; The ballad of the prisoner -- Odysses ; The iceberg --
• Deception island -- Sea wife -- The bones -- small woman on Swallow Street -- Pool room in the lion's club -- Grandfather in the old men's home -- Grandmother dying -- Burning mountain -- Fable -- Tamburlaine and Persepolis -- Some winter sparrows -- Bucolic -- The gleaners -- Grandmother and grandson -- Blind girl -- One-eye -- The drunk in the furnace -- Cape Dread -- The frozen sea -- The Portland going out -- Translations: Five Spanish romances ; Two ballads on the relations of the Spaniards and the Moors ; Ballad ; The Cid's vassals mounting his body upon Babieca Defeat Bucar -- Three anonymous Spanish lyrics of the early Renaissance -- A series of very short anonymous lyrics from the Spanish -- Four somwhat longer Spanish lyrics.

Notes

• -  Recorded by Fassett Recording Studios, Boston, Mass.
• -  Given to the Library of Congress in 1959 by Lee Anderson for inclusion in the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature.
• -  Literary recordings, rev., enl. ed., p. 158.
• -  Preservation master. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Magnetic Recording Laboratory, 1973. 2 sound tape reels : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.

Medium

• 5 sound tape reels : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 7 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

• LWO 2932, reel 1-5 (archival acetate -- not for playback)
• LWO 8527, reel 26-27 (preservation master)

Library of Congress Control Number

• 95770094

Online Format

• audio

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/95770094

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