| Description | Recording of a CBC broadcast by Ronald Duncan on his poetry. Reel is labelled 'Mr R. Duncan Tape 1 Reading CBC'. Duration 27:13. Digital surrogate available.
The tape includes:
00:06 Ronald Duncan speaking on his beliefs about poetry, what he believes it to be, what he likes and dislikes.
01:17 introduces This way to the tomb and reads from it.
04:12 Mentions Benjamin Britten writing the incidental music for the play, reads from the songs that were written for him to set: Morning, Evening, and Night. Reads lyric for Boogie Woogie, Man of culture.
08:37 Introduces and reads from Abelard & Heloise
18:30 Introduces and reads from 'Man'. Discusses aims of the poem, and his feelings on science and art.
19:26 Canto I, to ignorance, from 'Man'.
22:19 Canto IV, on the nature of light in terms of relativity, from 'Man' |