Audio Recordings

Description

Audio recording of John Heath-Stubbs reading a selection of his published poems. Each poem is preceded by a title announcement. The poems are as follows: [Side A]:

- Canticle of the Sun

- Carol or Advent

- sonnets from the sequence The Heart's Forest

- Prelude - A Galliard, from the sequence The Triumph of the Muse

- Sestina

- A Heroic Epistle

- To Sylvia (translated from the Italian of Giacomo Leopardi)

- a poem from the Persian of Hafiz, translated in collaboration with Peter Avery, beginning Boy, bring the cup and circulate the wine ...

- The Death of Digenes Akritas [Side B]:

- Ibycus

- A Charm Against the Toothache

- The Lady's Complaint

- Canso

- A Ballad of Pope Joan

- Epitaph for Thäis

- To the Dioscuri (from the Greek of Alcaeus)

- 3 poems from the Greek of Anacreon: To Artemis,To Dionysius,The Girl from Lesbos

- May-Fly

- Lament for the Old Swan, Notting Hill Gate

- Johnny Appleseed

- Plato and the Waters of the Flood

The tape is accompanied by a carbon copy typescript letter from the Librarian at the Brotherton Library (Mr Masson) to John Heath-Stubbs regarding the tape (18 December 1963). The original acquisitions slip for the tape has also been retained, and indicates that the recording was made in the United States around 1960. Duration: 57.03 minutes. Playback speed: 7½ ips.

Provenance

Gifted to the Brotherton Library by John Heath-Stubbs, December 1963.

Access and usage

Reproduction

Access

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Physical and technical conditions

Playback speed: 7½ ips. CD copy available for consultation

Related material

See also audio and DVD recordings of Heath-Stubbs collected by Adrian Risdon: BC MS 20c Heath-Stubbs/5/1 - 3.

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