The Woodberry Poetry Room in Harvard's Lamont Library, houses an vast collection of audio recordings. Plath and Hughes both read during their time in Massachusetts from 1957-1959. Plath read at the Woodberry on 22 February 1959. Below is information about the recorded archives of the Woodberry Poetry Room. They have a website, which is here.
Woodberry Poetry Room recorded archives, 1930-1986
Archival Material ca. 1200 audio tapes and phonograph records.
Consists of recordings of readings chiefly by American and English poets given at Harvard University. As of 1986 there were approximately 1200 readings in the Woodberry recorded archives, and about 40 new readings are added every year. Beginning in 1985 video tapes of readings were added to the collection.
The Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard was established in honor of Professor George Edward Woodberry. It was opened in 1931 in Widener Library and was moved in 1949 to Lamont Library. From the beginning, poetry readings, funded by the Morris Gray Fund, were given in the Woodberry Room. The Poetry Room now has assumed responsibility for recording all poetry readings given at Harvard. These include, in addition to those funded by the Morris Gray Fund (administered since 1939 by the English Department), the Corliss Lamont Poetry Reading Series, readings funded by the Ellen Sitgreaves Vail Motter Fund of Radcliffe College, readings given under the auspices of the Harvard Vocarium, and readings sponsored by the Poetry Room itself.
Copies of recordings will be made only with the written permission of the author or the author's estate. Unpublished finding aid available in repository.
Plath read the following poems.
1.) Full Fathom Five
2.) Departure
3.) I Want, I Want
4.) Green Rock, Winthrop Bay
5.) On the Decline of Oracles
6.) Lorelei
7.) Moonrise
8.) Watercolor of Grandchester Meadows
9.) The Bull of Bendylaw
0.) Frog Autumn
11.) The Hermit at Outermost House
12.) The Goring
13.) Ouija
14.) Snakecharmer
15.) The Beggar of Benidorm Market
16.) Sculptor
17.) Point Shirley
And, according to this finding aid, The Woodberry Poetry Room also has a typescript with autograph manuscript annotions of Plath's poem 'Tulips'.
The Houghton Library at Harvard holds some other drafts of 'Tulips' in their collection. I wrote about this collection in June, you can read it here.
Woodberry Poetry Room recorded archives, 1930-1986
Archival Material ca. 1200 audio tapes and phonograph records.
Consists of recordings of readings chiefly by American and English poets given at Harvard University. As of 1986 there were approximately 1200 readings in the Woodberry recorded archives, and about 40 new readings are added every year. Beginning in 1985 video tapes of readings were added to the collection.
The Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard was established in honor of Professor George Edward Woodberry. It was opened in 1931 in Widener Library and was moved in 1949 to Lamont Library. From the beginning, poetry readings, funded by the Morris Gray Fund, were given in the Woodberry Room. The Poetry Room now has assumed responsibility for recording all poetry readings given at Harvard. These include, in addition to those funded by the Morris Gray Fund (administered since 1939 by the English Department), the Corliss Lamont Poetry Reading Series, readings funded by the Ellen Sitgreaves Vail Motter Fund of Radcliffe College, readings given under the auspices of the Harvard Vocarium, and readings sponsored by the Poetry Room itself.
Copies of recordings will be made only with the written permission of the author or the author's estate. Unpublished finding aid available in repository.
Plath read the following poems.
1.) Full Fathom Five
2.) Departure
3.) I Want, I Want
4.) Green Rock, Winthrop Bay
5.) On the Decline of Oracles
6.) Lorelei
7.) Moonrise
8.) Watercolor of Grandchester Meadows
9.) The Bull of Bendylaw
0.) Frog Autumn
11.) The Hermit at Outermost House
12.) The Goring
13.) Ouija
14.) Snakecharmer
15.) The Beggar of Benidorm Market
16.) Sculptor
17.) Point Shirley
And, according to this finding aid, The Woodberry Poetry Room also has a typescript with autograph manuscript annotions of Plath's poem 'Tulips'.
The Houghton Library at Harvard holds some other drafts of 'Tulips' in their collection. I wrote about this collection in June, you can read it here.