Yvor Winters: February 14, 1958
The Poetry Center presents Yvor Winters reading from his poetry.
- Originally Recorded By
- The Poetry Center
- Location
- San Francisco
- Date
- 02/14/1958
- Total Run Time
- 00:52:30
- Contributor
- Ruth Witt-Diamant
- Rights
- ©© American Poetry Archives. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. For all other uses please email poetry@sfsu.edu
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- Ruth Witt-Diamant introduces Winters (00:08)
- Yvor Winters' opening remarks concerning his poems, "written approximately 1928 to 1954" (01:30)
- "To William Dinsmore Briggs Conducting a Seminar" (2:38)
- "The Fable" (4:07)
- "The Slow Pacific Swell" (5:15)
- "The Journey, Snake River Country" (8:46)
- "Before Disaster, Winter 1932-3" (12:27)
- Winters explains his source of the myth of Heracles as a sun god, with his labors resembling the symbols of the zodiac (13:50)
- "Heracles" (14:40)
- Introduction to the second and third from a set of three poems on the theme of Theseus (18:08)
- "Theseus and Ariadne" (18:26)
- "The Old Age of Theseus" (21:07)
- "John Sutter" (24:12)
- Introduction to "The California Oaks" with its source in early Chinese exploration of Western North America (27:04)
- "The California Oaks" (28:47)
- Sound cuts out (31:53)
- "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" (31:58)
- "Time and the Garden" (34:16)
- "On a Portrait of a Scholar of the Italian Renaissance" (37:33)
- "Summer Noon, 1941" (38:45)
- "To a Military Rifle, 1942" (40:02)
- "Defense of Empire" (42:00)
- "Night of Battle, Europe, 1944, As Regarded from a Great Distance" (43:16)
- "An Ode on the Despoilers of Learning in an American University, 1947" (44:08)
- "To the Holy Spirit, from a Deserted Graveyard in the Salinas Valley" (46:02)
- "A Fragment" (48:48)
- "To the Moon" (49:16)
- "The San Francisco Airport, 1954" (50:14)
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