[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, May 7, 1965] / Stephen Spender.

Recorded in the Millard Fillmore Room of Norton Union at the University at Buffalo on May 7, 1965 at 3 p.m. on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel.

Poet Stephen Spender reads poems from the 1930 until 1965. He discusses his family and the use of poetry as propaganda. He talks about writing about the cinema and music and reads poems about Louis MacNeice and his own grandmother. Spender also discussed the education of the poor. He closes by taking a question from an audience member about modernism. His reading was co-sponsored by the Student Convocations Committee and the Lockwood Library.

Stephen Spender.

The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries. Digital conversion was made possible through a 2009 National Endowment for the Humanities grant.

1965

Sound recording

PCR304

Acts passed beyond --Trigorin --The express --The truly great --An elementary school classroom in a slum --Subject, object, sentence --One more new botched beginning --Pronouns of this time.

Hear@Buffalo: The Poetry Collection’s Audio Archive

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