UNLV LIBRARY American Passages. MEDIA RESOURCES CATALOG Annenberg/CPB (2003) POETRY "American Passages is a 16-part Summer 2011 American literature instructional series. The video programs, print guides, and Web site [Akhmatova] The Anna Akhmatova File. place literary movements and authors within Facets Video (1989) the context of history and culture. The series Examines the soul of a contradictory takes an expanded view of American literary age in which Akhmatova worked. Uses her movements, bringing in a diversity of voices diaries for text and includes portraits of her and tracing the continuity among them. The friends and contemporaries. materials, which are coordinated with the Video Cassette (1 hr. 5 min.) Norton Anthology of American Literature, PG 3476 A324 Z745 can be used as the basis of a one or two- semester college-level course or for teacher Alexander Blok. professional development." (Web site) Filmfair Communications (1991) pt.1. Native voices Discusses Blok's activity in social pt.2. Exploring borderlands issues, involvement with political pt.3. Utopian promise progressives, and his impact on the history pt.4. Spirit of nationalism of his country. pt. 5. Masculine heroes Video Cassette (25 min.) pt.6. Gothic undercurrents PG 3453 B6 Z613 pt.7. Slavery and freedom pt.8. Regional realism America in Portrait. pt.9. Social realism Monterey Home Video (1988) pt. 11. Modernist portraits Includes Spoon River Anthology, pt.12. Migrant struggle Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, To pt.13. Southern renaissance Helen, I am the People the Mob, The pt.14. Becoming visible Deacon's Masterpiece, I Dream a World. pt.15. Poetry of liberation Video Cassette (45 min.) pt.16. Search for identity PS 586 A44 16 Videocassettes + 1 table of contents (xxiv leaves) + 16 guides PS504 .A44 2003 pt.1 –16 + guides [Angelou] Maya Angelou. PBS (1982) Maya Angelou returns to Stamps, Arkansas to confront the scenes of her past, the inspirations and agonies of her youth in a segregated community. Video Cassette (58 min.) PS 3551 N464 Z72 The Augustan Poets. Kultur (1999) A guide to the work of Augustan poets including the works of Alexander Pope, John Dryden and Samuel Johnson. Includes analysis and interpretation by Dr. Karen O'Brien and Professor Nigel Wood, readings of these poets' work, and information on the poets' lives and times. Video Cassette (50 min.) PR561 .A83 1999 For additions to this section please see the Media Resources Desk. For availability check the Library catalog http://webpac.library.unlv.edu. POETRY 2 [Baraka] LeRoi Jones/Imamu Amiri [Blake] William Blake: Songs of Baraka. Innocence and Experience. Everett/Edwards (1976) Films for the Humanities (1992) Lecture on his life and works with "The Chimney Sweeper" poem and emphasis on his poetry. others from "Songs of Experience" are the Cassette principal focus of this program. PS 3552 A583 Z68 Video Cassette (20 min.) PR 4147 W442 Beowulf and the Old English Tradition. Films for the Humanities (1984) [Blake] William Blake. See summary in Literature section. Films for the Humanities (1996) Video Cassette (38 min.) Examines Blake's artistic PR 1585 B46 achievement and assesses his continuing appeal. Explores late-Georgian London: a Beowulf and the Roots of Anglo-Saxon world of political ferment and religious Poetry. dispute. Films for the Humanities & Sciences Video Cassette (52 min.) Contains the complete text of PR 4146 W462 Beowulf, including a fully searchable and printable glossary and an Anglo-Saxon Browning & The Italian Renaissance. dictionary with grammatical reference and Everett/Edwards audio pronunciation guide. The Finnesburgh Cassette (31 min.) fragment and excerpts from The Wanderer, PR 4238 L47 The Seafarer, The Dream of the Rood, The Battle of Brunanburb, and The Battle of Browning's Versions of Christianity. Maldon, genealogical tables, a map, and a Everett/Edwards chronology of Anglo-Saxon literature are Cassette also a part of this learning aid. PR 4242 R4 L47 1 computer optical disc PR 1580 1999 [Carruth, Hayden] Eternity Blues. Watershed Intermedia (1986) Beowulf, Caedmon's Hymn and Other Old List of poems in container. English Poems. Cassette Caedmon CDL 51161 (197?) PS 3505 A77594 A62 Read in Old English. Contents: Caedmon's Hymn, The Dream of the Rood, The Chanson de Roland: Epic Poem with The Wanderer, The Battle of Brunan Burg, Unknown Author. A Wife's Lament, Beowulf (selections). Everett/Edwards 1976) Cassette Lecture on the poem. PR 1581 C3 Cassette (41 min.) PQ 1522 J32 [Bhagavadgita] Selections from the Bhagavad-Gita: The Song of God. Caedmon (197?) A new translation in prose and poetry by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood. Cassette (1 hr.) PK 3633 B5 I8 For additions to this section please see the Media Resources Desk. For availability check the Library catalog http://webpac.library.unlv.edu. POETRY 3 [Coleridge ] The Lake poets: Wordsworth Contemporary Poets Reading Their and Coleridge. Works. Vol. 3. Monterey Home Video(1998) Caedmon (1972) William Wordsworth, his sister W.H. Auden (51 min.) Dorothy, his wife Mary, and his friend The Land & other poems Samuel Taylor Coleridge often set out on (45 min.) walking tours through the beautiful Lake Robert Graves (48 min.) District of England. The members of The Vachel Lindsay (27 min.) First Poetry Quartet follow in their footsteps Stephen Spender (34 min.) as they visit Wordsworth's home at Dove 5 Cassettes Cottage, travel by carriage to the mountains PN 6101 C653 above Ullswater, and wend their way by twilight to the lake at Grasmere. Excerpts [Corbett] On Blue Note. from Dorothy's journals and letters introduce Zoland Books (1989) the poetry selections. Cassette (52 min.) Video Cassette (29 min.) Book (81 p.) PR5853 .N43 1998 PS 3553 O6438 O5 1989 [Coleridge] Rime of the Ancient Mariner. [Crane] Poems and "The Open Boat". Kultur (198?) Everett/Edwards Pt. 1 - The Life of Samuel Coleridge. Discussion. Pt. 2 - The Rime of the Ancient Cassette (25 min.) Mariner. A unique visualization of the poem PS 1449 C85 063 that takes you on a strange and lonely voyage where space and time are limitless. Cummings, E.E. Video Cassette (1 hr.) Everett/Edwards PR 4483 S77 Biography and discussion of works. 2 Cassettes The Confucian Tradition. PS 3505 U334 Z57 Films for the Humanities (1998) 1. The Confucian Tradition (46 min.) Cummings E.E.: The Making of a Poet. 2. Chinese Poetry: Origins of a Films for the Humanities (198?) Literary Tradition (34 min.) This self-portrait, told in the poet's 3. Poetry of the Tang and Later own voice, poetry, paintings, and notebooks, Dynasties (43 min.) visits the scenes, people, and events that 3 Video Cassettes () shaped his vision. Guide (129 p.) Video Cassette (24 min.) B 127 C65 PS 3505 U334 Z63 Contemporary Poets Reading Their [Dante] The Inferno. Works. Vol. 1. Films for the Humanities and Sciences Caedmon (1972) (1996) Stephen Vincent Benet (50 min.) Radical, new visual techniques are Archibald MacLeish (54 min.) used to bring the first eight cantos of Dante's Ezra Pound (50 min.) Inferno to the screen. The film illustrates and 3 Cassettes complements Dante's text, re-creating a 600 PN 6101 C65 year-old work as a late twentieth century post-modern masterpiece. Eminent scholars in visual sidebars interpret Dante's metaphors and symbolism. Video Cassette (90 min.) PQ 4315.25 D35 For additions to this section please see the Media Resources Desk. For availability check the Library catalog http://webpac.library.unlv.edu. POETRY 4 [Dickey] The Poems of James Dickey. The Edge of Each Other's Battles: The Spoken Arts (1985) Vision of Audre Lorde. Read by the poet. On the Hill Below Profile Productions (2002) the Lighthouse, The Performance, The Video by Jennifer Abod about poet Lifeguard, The Heaven of Animals, Fog "Audre Lorde's social vision and the Envelops the Animals, To His Children in translation of that vision into an historic Darkness, The Hospital Window, In the transnational conference, which used her Mountain Tent, A Birth, Cherrylog Road, The work, while celebrating her life." --Container Firebombing, Sun, and The Sheep Child. 1 Video Cassette (60 min.) Cassette (51 min.) PS3562.O75 Z58 2000 PS 3554 I32 A62 [Eliot] The Modern World: Ten Great Dickey, James. Writers. Everett/Edwards Home Vision, 1988 Contains some biography and a Series combines drama, documentary discussion of his poetry. and critical analysis by authors and literary 2 Cassettes (1 hr. 24 min.) critics to discuss he works of writers who PS 3554 I32 Z592 pt. 1-2 were among the first to envision life in the modern world. Presents the authors' Dickinson, Emily. personal experiences, backgrounds and Everett/Edwards artistic philosophies while focusing on their Lecture on life and works. important works. 2 Cassettes (1 hr. 12 min.) Video Cassette (58 min.) PS 1541 Z5 A52 PN 56 M54 M63 (v. 9) [Dickinson] The Belle of Amherst. [Eliot] Tom and Viv. King Video (1976) Buena Vista Home Video (1994) Julie Harris as Emily Dickinson Tom & Viv tells the story of the portrays America's first notable poetess passionate yet turbulent relationship through an examination of her writing and between T.S.Eliot and his beautiful wife, observations of her life and family. Vivienne. Although she was the inspiration Video Cassette (1 hr. 30 min.) for his greatest works, Eliot finally had to PS 3562 U254 B442 make a choice between standing by the emotionally troubled Vivienne and letting her [Eaton] Love is Recognition. go. Draco (197?) Video Cassette (115 min.) The poet reads from her collection of PR 6058 A816 T62 poetry, Love Is Recognition. Included are five poems from The Small Hour. [Eliot] The Wasteland. Cassette (1 hr.) Everett/Edwards PS 3509 A84 L68 Lecture on the poem.