Scope and arrangement
The audio recording is a radio interview with William Stanley Braithwaite, conducted in 1958 by the poet Florence Becker Lennon for the weekly radio series The Enjoyment of Poetry, and broadcast by WEVD, Queens, New York.
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- Creator
- Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962
- Call number
- Sc MIRS Braithwaite 1991-13
- Physical description
- 1 audio_recording
- Language
- English
- Preferred Citation
- William Stanley Braithwaite audio collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library
- Sponsor
- An anonymous donor funded preliminary processing for this collection. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supported a research library-wide grant for the digitization, and funded the Schomburg for the description and production of the finding aid as part of The Next Century of Black Studies Project.
- Repository
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division
- Access to materials
- Appointment preferred: Request an in-person research appointment.
William Stanley Braithwaite (1878-1962) was a poet and editor of poetry anthologies. The collection consists of a 1958 radio interview with Braithwaite for the weekly radio series The Enjoyment of Poetry.
Biographical/historical information
Poet William Stanley Braithwaite (1878-1962) was the author of Lyrics of Love and Life (1904), The House of Falling Leaves (1908), and Selected Poems (1948). His literary criticism includes The Bewitched Parsonage: The Story of the Brontës (1950). His writing was published in newspapers and magazines such as the Boston Transcript, where he first began anthologizing poetry.
As an anthologist, Braithwaite has been credited by scholars as a foundational influence on the development of modern American poetry. From 1913 to 1929, he founded and edited the Anthology of Magazine Verse and Year Book of American Poetry series. He also edited numerous anthologies on subjects such as modern British verse and Catholic verse. In 1918, Braithwaite's work as a poet, editor, and literary critic earned him a Spingarn medal from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Additionally, Braithwaite founded a publishing company called B.J. Brimmer in 1921, publishing authors such as the playwright Georgia Douglas Johnson. He was a professor of creative literature at Atlanta University from 1935 to 1945. After he retired, Braithwaite, his wife Emma, and their children moved to Harlem, where he died on June 8, 1962.
See the Related Materials note for more information about his books and anthologies.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Braithwaite family, 1991.
Processing information
Collection inventoried by Nathan Evans. Collection processed and described by Lyric Evans-Hunter, archivist; and Shola Lynch, curator. Finding aid published in 2024.
Separated material
See the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division for the William Stanley Braithwaite papers, Sc MG 84.
See the Photographs and Prints Division for the photographs.
Related Material
Braithwaite's books and anthologies are housed in the General Research and Reference Division, and in the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division, where several of his publications have been identified as having belonged to Arturo Schomburg's original collection.
Using the collection
Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Third Floor