[Lecture at the University at Buffalo, November 11, 1970] / Allen Ginsberg.

Lecture recorded at the University at Buffalo on November 11, 1970 on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape by Allen De Loach and acquired by the Poetry Collection.

Poet Allen Ginsberg lectures at the University at Buffalo. He begins with a mantra to a Hindu goddess. He discusses the usage of sound and language in poetry. He talks about gnostic texts, William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edgar Allan Poe, John Milton, Plato, Hart Crane. Ginsberg reads Shelley's Ode to the west wind and Crane's The bridge Atlantis.

Allen Ginsberg.

The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries. Digital conversion was made possible through a 2009 National Endowment for the Humanities grant.

1970

Sound recording

INT183A

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