W.H. Auden Collection of Sound Recordings 1950-1983

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W.H. Auden Collection of Sound Recordings 1950-1983

The W.H. Auden Collection of Sound Recordings consists of vinyl LPs once owned by poet W. H. Auden and his partner Chester Kallman. Included are copies of The Rake's Progress (Auden and Kallman wrote the libretto), Auden reading four poems on an Argo LP, and one LP dedicated to Auden from poet Cornel Lengyel.

8 boxes; : 423 vinyl LPs, 2 open reel tapes

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SNAC Resource ID: 6651868

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Kallman, Chester, 1921-1975

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Alan Ansen was an American poet. From the guide to the Alan Ansen collection of papers, 1942-1953, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x0002f4 Chester Kallman was an American poet and librettist. From the description of Chester Kallman collection of papers,...

Lengyel, Cornel Adam

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Lengyel was born on Jan. 1, 1915 in Fairfield, CT; was editor, Federal Writers' Project, 1936-37; music critic for Coast (San Francisco), 1938-41; censor, Office of Censorship, San Francisco, 1942; shipwright and personnel interviewer, Kaiser Shipyards, Richmond, CA, 1943-44; manager, Forty-Niner Theatre, Georgetown, CA, 1946-49; editor, W.H. Freeman Co., 1952-54; founder and executive editor of Dragon's Tooth Press in 1970; visiting professor and lecturer, Sacramento State College, 1962-63; has...

Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973

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Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973), poet, was born in York, England, on February 21, 1907. He attended Christ Church, Oxford, from 1925-1928, then served as a schoolmaster in various institutions in England and Scotland from 1930 to 1935, including The Downs School in Colwell. In 1935 Auden married Erika Mann, a writer and the daughter of Thomas Mann, so that she could gain British Citizenship and escape Nazi Germany. Although the two never lived together, they remained married until Mann's death in ...