The defense of poetry

Transcript of 30 audiotape recordings of lectures, discussions, and readings by Kenneth Burke, John Ciardi, Elliott Coleman, Donald Davidson, Richard Eberhart, W.Y. Elliott, Pierre Emmanuel, Randall Jarrell, A.M. Klein, Albert Lord, R. Lowell, Mary McCarthy, Marianne Moore, John Crowe Ransom, M.R. Ridley, Theodore Roethke, Frank Scott, A.L. Sells, A.J.M. Smith, Stephen Spender, Peter Viereck, Richard Wilbur, and Harry Levin, who was the chair. The conference director was William Yandell Elliott.