Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections & Archives Research Center
University
Archives
121 The Valley
Library
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-4501
Phone:
541-737-2165
Email:
archives@oregonstate.edu
Web:
http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives
MSS
Dankleff
Dankleff, Richard.
Richard Dankleff Sound
Recording
2010
0.01 cubic foot, including 1
compact disc
1 box
The Richard Dankleff Sound Recording
consists of Dankleff reading poetry, primarily written by him. The
original recording was made in the late 1980s. Dankleff was a faculty
member in the Oregon State University English Department from 1963 until
his retirement in 1987.
Materials in English.
Biographical Note:
Richard Elden Dankleff was a faculty member in the Oregon State
University English Department from 1963 until his retirement in 1987. In
addition to his teaching responsibilities, he wrote poetry and led a
poetry workshop in the Corvallis community. He continued to mentor other
writers of poetry after his retirement. Dankleff's poetry was published as
individual pieces as well as in three collections.
Popcorn Girl (1979) and
Westerns (1984) were published by the
Oregon State University Press; Off Watch
was published by Oregon Sunrise Press in 2001.
Dankleff attended the University of Nebraska before serving in World
War II. After the war, he completed a BS at Columbia University in 1949.
Dankleff earned an MA from the University of Nebraska in 1954 and a Ph.D.
from the University of Chicago in 1959. He died in Corvallis in 2010.
The Richard Dankleff Sound Recording consists of readings by Dankleff
of his own poems as well as selections by William Butler Yeats and William
Shakespeare. The recording is about 60 minutes in length and includes 48
poems. Dankleff begins with Shakespeare and several pieces by William
Butler Yeats. He then reads his own work, alternating between pieces that
had been published in
Popcorn Girl and what Dankleff referred to
as his "Merchant Marine Poems". These are earlier versions of poems that
would later be published in Off Watch. A
full listing of the contents of the recording are available with the
CD.
The recording was made in the late 1980s for John and Diana Van
Driesche, and their son Richard, who was named for Dankleff. The Van
Driesches played the original recording (on cassette tape) at a memorial
service for Dankleff and were encouraged to duplicate the tape to compact
disc and make it available to others.
Collection is open for research.
Richard Dankleff Sound Recording, Oregon State University Archives,
Corvallis, Oregon.
The compact disc was donated to the Archives by Diana Van Driesche in
2010.
The OSU Archives houses the papers of several Oregon State English
faculty including Peter Copek;
Elizabeth
Henley, also a poet; Ray S. Hewitt; Sigurd H. and Ruth Peterson;
and
M.
Ellwood Smith. The English Department Records are part of the
College
of Liberal Arts Records (RG 143). The
English
Department Photographs (P 222) consist of photographs of Bernard
Malamud during his years as a faculty member at Oregon State; the OSU
Libraries Special Collections includes the
Bernard
Malamud Papers. The
Edwin T.
Reed Papers include poetry written by Reed. Poems are included in
numerous other collections held by the Archives, including the
Memorabilia
Collection (MC-Poems).
Oral interpretation of poetry.
American
poetry--Oregon.
Compact
discs.
Colleges and
Universities
Literature
Corvallis
Sound Recordings