Artstor: The Poet Young and Old (Elizabeth Bishop)
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Exhibit Sources: Artstor
- ARTstor This link opens in a new window ARTstor is a database of images from museums, artists, libraries, colleges and universities, scholars, private collections, and photo archives available for teaching, education, and scholarship, with all images cleared for educational use.
Exhibit Sources: Film
- "Nick and the Candlestick," by Sylvia Path (Favorite Poem Project) The collection of 50 short video documentaries showcases individual Americans reading and speaking personally about poems they love.
- "Polly's Tree," by Sylvia Plath (Favorite Poem Project) The collection of 50 short video documentaries showcases individual Americans reading and speaking personally about poems they love.
- "At the Fishhouses," by Elizabeth Bishop (Favorite Poem Project) The collection of 50 short video documentaries showcases individual Americans reading and speaking personally about poems they love.
- "One Art," by Elizabeth Bishop (Favorite Poem Project) The collection of 50 short video documentaries showcases individual Americans reading and speaking personally about poems they love.
- "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?" by Elily Dickinson (Favorite Poem Project The collection of 50 short video documentaries showcases individual Americans reading and speaking personally about poems they love.
- Voices & visions. 1, Elizabeth Bishop : one art (streaming, Academic Video Online0 From childhood in Nova Scotia to travels in Brazil, this program illustrates the geographic spirit of Bishop's life and works with scenes from her poems.
- Voices & visions. 3, Emily Dickinson (streaming, Academic Video Online) Dramatic scenarios and New England landscapes illuminate the passionate genius of Dickinson, whose poems represent a broad range of imaginative experience. About the series: The lives and works of 13 renowned American poets are interpreted through dramatic readings, archival photographs, dance, performances, and interviews in this inspiring series. Illustrative poems in each program are accompanied by insights into their historical and cultural connections. The series covers the terminology of poetry and the larger role of poets in American and world literature studies. Poets include Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, and Elizabeth Bishop.
- Voices & visions. 9, Sylvia Plath (streaming, Academic Video Online) The lives and works of 13 renowned American poets are interpreted through dramatic readings, archival photographs, dance, performances, and interviews in this inspiring series. Illustrative poems in each program are accompanied by insights into their historical and cultural connections. The series covers the terminology of poetry and the larger role of poets in American and world literature studies. Poets include Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, and Elizabeth Bishop. The creative intensity with which Plath confronted her experiences as daughter, wife, mother, and writer is explored in documentary and archival footage intercut with visualizations of her work.
- Poetry in America. Season 2, episode 2, One art (streaming, Academic Video Online) In the second season of Poetry in America, guests join Elisa New to discuss the poems of Marilyn Chin, Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore, Mark Doty, Yusef Komunyakaa, Stephen Sondheim, William Carlos Williams, and Walt Whitman. Guests including Katie Couric, Sheryl Sandberg, Yang Lan, Mary Chapin Carpenter and others discuss Elizabeth Bishop's masterpiece on losses, great and small.
- Poetry in America. I cannot dance opon my toes by Emily Dickinson (streaming, Academic Video Online) "I cannot dance opon my toes" by Emily Dickinson, featuring Cynthia Nixon, Marie Howe, Yo Yo Ma, Jill Johnson. Poetry in America gathers distinguished interpreters from all walks of life to explore and debate 12 unforgettable American poems. Athletes and poets, politicians and musicians, architects, scientists, actors, entrepreneurs, and citizens of all ages join host and Harvard professor Elisa New to experience and share the power of poetry in this visually dazzling and archivally rich series.
- Famous authors. Emily Dickinson : poet, 1830 -1886 (streaming, Academic Video Online) This film by Malcolm Hossick follows the improbable life of Emily Dickinson writing very imaginative poetry in the little New England town of Amherst in the middle of the 19th century. Against all the odds her work, largely unpublished during her lifetime was printed and has found an appreciative audience. A brief overview of her work follows.
- A Quiet Passion (streaming, Kanopy) Cynthia Nixon delivers a triumphant performance as Emily Dickinson as she personifies the wit, intellectual independence and pathos of the poet whose genius only came to be recognized after her death.
- Lady Lazarus (Poets on Screen) A recording of the poem "Lady Lazarus" by Sylvia Plath. Read by Imtiaz Dharker.
Exhibit Sources: Archives
- Emily Dickinson Archive: An Open-Access Website for the Manuscripts of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson Archive (EDA) provides high-resolution images of manuscripts of Dickinson’s poetry, along with transcriptions and annotations from selected historical and scholarly editions. This first release focuses on gathering images of those poems included in The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition, edited by R. W. Franklin (Cambridge: Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, 1998).
- Emily Dickinson Collection, Amherst College The Emily Dickinson collection includes original poems, manuscripts, and letters from Dickinson to family and friends, spanning her life from 1830 to 1886, as well as numerous rough drafts and fragments of her poems.
- The Poetry of Emily Dickinson (Digital Public Library of America) Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was an American writer who lived during the Civil War and the first wave of feminism, during which women fought for suffrage and other rights. Dickinson lived a famously isolated existence but read widely and used letters to stay connected to the world. Dickinson’s inventive poems experiment with punctuation, syntax, metaphors, and diction to explore themes including nature, freedom, death, power, and faith. Though she published little during her lifetime, Dickinson wrote almost 1,800 poems and hundreds of letters. Today, Dickinson is one of the most read and studied American writers. Dickinson’s innovations in poetic form and examination of unexpected topics inspired writers in future generations, both in the US and around the world; her influence can be seen, for example, in modernist poetry of the twentieth century.
Exhibit Sources: Audio Recordings & Audio Files
- Audio Recordings of Elizabeth Bishop, Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University The Listening Booth represents a small portion of the Woodberry Poetry Room’s total collection: The online highlights feature selections from our on-going digitization of fragile phonodiscs and magnetic media, as well as born-digital recordings from our recent Poetry Room events.
- Sylvia Plath reading her poetry The ghost's leavetaking.--November graveyard.--On the plethora of Dryads.--The moon was a fat woman once.--Nocturne.--Child's park stone.--The earthenware head.--On the difficulty of conjuring up a Dryad.--Green rock-Winthrop Bay.--On the decline of oracles.--The goring.--Ouija.--The beggars of Benidorm Market.--Sculptor.--The disquieting muses.--Spinster.--Parliament Hill Fields.--The stones.--Leaving early.--Candles.--Mushrooms.--Berck-Plage.--The surgeon at 2 a.m.
- Pleasure dome : an audible anthology of modern poetry read by its creators The fish (from North and South) / Elizabeth Bishop.
- Dance panels ; Eight poems of Emily Dickinson ; Short symphony (2009) Dance Panels, ballet, composed by Aaron Copland, 1900-1990 -- Poems (8) of Emily Dickinson for voice & orchestra (arr. from 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson), composed by Aaron Copland, 1900-1990: Nature, the gentlest mother ; There came a wind like a bugle ; The world feels dusty ; Heart, we will forget him ; Dear March, come in! ; Sleep is supposed to be ; Going to Heaven! ; The chariot -- Symphony No. 2 ('Short Symphony'), composed by Aaron Copland, 1900-1990.
