[Lecture at the University at Buffalo, summer course 1968. / Robert Duncan.

Recorded at the University at Buffalo on July 31 and August 1, 1968 by Allen De Loach for the Poetry Collection on two Scotch reel-to-reel tapes.

During the tweny-first session, Duncan read from William Blake's long poem titled Milton. Among the subjects Duncan discussed during the twenty-first and twenty-second sessions were Dante, Whitman, Homer, Blake, George Wallace, Marx, the Industrial Revolution, Crime and Punishment, novels as poetry, the Eternal Return (Nietzsche), Shakespeare, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, Milton, Theogony, Plato, Ben Jonson, Edward Lear, Hopkins, Ogden Nash, T.S. Eliot, Ginsberg, Dylan Thomas, Bethoven, Plato, Socrates, Oedipus the King, newspapers, detective novels, Hammett, Monet, Michelangelo, Freud, Olson, Morton Feldman, Samuel Johnson, Williams, Culture (simultaneously published as Guide to Kulchur) by Pound, and Bartholomew Fair by Ben Jonson No books are added to the reading list during the twenty-first and twenty-second sessions.

Robert Duncan.

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

1968

Sound recording

INT158

Milton (William Blake)

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