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

Recorded at the University at Buffalo on July 24 and 26, 1968 by Allen De Loach for the Poetry Collection on two Scotch reel-to-reel tapes.

Among the subjects Duncan discussed during the seventeenth and eighteenth sessions were Dante, B??hme, Goethe, Freud, "Love's Alchemy" (Donne), Jung, Robert Kelly, Berkeley, Piaget, Olson, Pound, Williams, De Loach, Snyder, Stein, Blake, Marquis de Sade, Shakespeare, Beckett, Burroughs, Sholem, Nietzsche, Plato, Whitehead, T.S. Eliot, Pindar, Brakhage, Bergman, Whitman, Socrates, Vietnam protests, Christ, Satan, "The Venice poem" (Duncan), Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Mondrian, Keats, Cage, Stravinsky, "The soldiers" (Duncan), the Zohar, and "To his coy mistress" and "The garden" by Marvell. The one book added to the reading list during the seventeenth and eighteenth sessions was Empty mirror by Allen Ginsberg.

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

INT156

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