[Lecture and poetry reading at the Westminster Church in Buffalo, N.Y., February 4-5, 1982] / Robert Duncan.

Recorded at Westminster Church's Parish Hall in Buffalo, N.Y. on February 4, 1982 at 8 p.m. by Allen De Loach on three sixty minute sound cassettes.

This lecture and poetry reading by Robert Duncan were held in the Parish Hall of Westminster Church in Buffalo, New York on February 4 and 5, 1982. The title of the lecture was "The continuity of Christian myth in poetry," and it was meant to complement the sermon that Duncan delivered in the same church on February 7. The sermon, titled "Crisis of spirit in the word," was transcribed and published by Robert J. Bertholf in the magazine Credences (Buffalo, NY: New series, volume 2, number 1, summer 1983), and then in the book Copy book entries (Buffalo, N.Y, 1996), but "The continuity of Christian myth in poetry" is uncollected. As part of the lecture, Duncan read "The Thanksgiving" by George Herbert and an early version of his own poem "Ancient reveries and declamations, Passages 32 (Tribunals)." For the poetry reading after the lecture, Duncan read eight poems from the "Regulators" section of Passages and concluded by reading "Structure of rime: of the five songs."

Robert Duncan.

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1982

Sound recording

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Disc 1-Disc 2.The continuity of Christian myth in poetry --The Thanksgiving (by George Herbert) --Passages 32, tribunals --The dignities, passages --The first, passages --Stimmung, passages --Enthralled, passages. --Disc 3.Quand le grand foyer descend dans les eaux, passages --With in, passages --Seams, passages --Structure of rime: the five songs.

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