[Program on light verse, May 1, 1958] / Anthony Ostroff, Robert Beloof.

Recorded in May 1, 1958 on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.

Program features Anthony Ostroff and Robert Beloof reading light verse that includes poetic jokes. They talk about how humor is characteristic of American poetry.

Anthony Ostroff, Robert Beloof.

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1958

Sound recording

OST023

I paint what I see: a ballad of artistic integrity /E.B. White, read by Anthony Ostroff --The Biglow papers /James Russell Lowell, read by Robert Beloof --King X /Robert Frost, read by Ostroff --A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man /e.e. cummings, read by Beloof --Monkey /Josephine Miles, read by Beloof --The purest /Ogden Nash, read by Beloof --Superiorities /Richard Wilbur, read by Beloof --Dirge /Kenneth Fearing, read by Ostroff --Academic moon /Helen Bevington, read by Beloof --Valentine /Don Geiger, read by Ostroff --D.G. Rossetti /Dororthy Parker, read by Beloof --History of a literary movement /Howard Nemerov, read by Ostroff --The fable for critics /James Russell Lowell, read by Beloof --Lines for Cuscuscaraway and Mizia Murad Ali Beg /T.S. Eliot, read by Ostroff --Fire and ice /Robert Frost, read by Ostroff.

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