Lamont Will Get New Tape Recordings for Woodberry Collection

Over 150 tape recordings of modern poetry readings and criticism may be available to students at the opening of the 1952 Summer School session, Phillip J. McNiff, Assistant in Charge of Lamont Library, said yesterday

According to McNiff, a tape recording machine will be installed in the Woodberry Poetry Room as early as July. It will operate on the same principle as the Poetry Room turntables used for listening to wax recordings.

Readings of poetry by the authors, and lectures and symposiums make up the collection of 30-minute tapes that has been assembled. Included in the collection are T. S. Eliot's Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture on "Poetry and Drama," and the 1950 Harvard Summer School Poetry Conference, with readings by Stephen Spender, John Ciardi, John Crowe Ransom, and Marianne Moore.