[Marianne Moore interview on Enjoyment of poetry] / Florence Becker Lennon.

Originally broadcast on June 7, 1959 on the radio program Enjoyment of poetry on WEVD, New York, N.Y. Digitized from the Poetry Collection's 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel donated copy of the original program.

Recording of an interview with Marianne Moore features a discussion on poetry. The show was subtitled: A Poem should praise all it can.

Florence Becker Lennon.

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

1959

Sound recording

PCR418B

Wantage bells /John Betjeman, read by Lennon --Late afternoon /Lennon --A song to David [excerpt] / by Christopher Smart, read by Moore --The wood-weasel /Moore --His shield /Moore --The plumet basilisk/ Moore --Part I. In Costa Rica /Moore --O to be a dragon /Moore --A grave /Moore --The Artic ox (or goat) /Moore --From Goodbye earth and other not no poems / by Ivor Armstrong Richards, read by Moore --Four quartz crystal clocks /Moore --Nine nectarines /Moore --A face /Moore --From Additional poems (Part XV last three stanzas) /A.E. Houseman, read by Lennon.

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