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

Recorded at the University at Buffalo on July 18 and 19, 1968 by Allen De Loach for the Poetry Collection on two Scotch reel-to-reel tapes.

Among the subjects Duncan discussed during the thirteenth and fourteenth sessions were Blake, Jacob Burckhardt, Robert Graves, George Herbert, St. John of the Cross, Dante, Hesiod, Homer, Hamlet, Alexander the Great, Aristotle, Buddha, Mohammed, Herodotus, Marx, Cavalcanti, Latini, Lyndon B. Johnson, George Wallace, Hitler, Hermes, Apollo, Freud, Whitman, D.H. Lawrence, St. Paul, Rilke, "Ulysses" by Tennyson, Dostoevsky, "A poem beginning with a line by Pindar" (Duncan), Heraclitus, Shakespeare, Toynbee, Pythagoras, Dickinson, Whitman, St. John, Jakob B??hme (translated by John Sparrow), Milton, Rosicrucian pamphlets, Jung, Mary de Medici, McClure, The H.D. Book (Duncan), Ulysses by Joyce, Nietzsche, Cocteau, "Up rising" (Duncan), Levertov, De Loach, Ginsberg, Pound, Williams, T.S. Eliot, H.D., and "Dover Beach" by Arnold. During the thirteenth and fourteenth sessions, the books added to the reading list were Themis by Jane Harrison, From ritual to romance by Jessie Weston, The spirit of romance by Ezra Pound again, and the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, translated by P.B. Shelley.

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

INT154

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