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

Recorded at the University at Buffalo on July 16 and 17, 1968 by Allen De Loach for the Poetry Collection on two Scotch reel-to-reel tapes.

During the eleventh and twelfth sessions, Duncan read all of The Book of Thel by William Blake and then read from Books III and IV of Paterson by Williams. Among the subjects Duncan discussed during the eleventh and twelfth sessions were Pound's Canto I, Freud, Pound's "Hugh Selwyn Mauberly," Marlowe's The Jew of Malta, Nietzsche, George MacDonald, H.D.'s Helen in Egypt, Christ, Sophocles' Oedipus, Marvell's "The garden," Bunyan, Hesiod, Jung, Erwin Schr??dinger, Aristotle, H.G. Wells, Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, D.H. Lawrence, Joyce, Stravinsky, "The Venice poem" (Duncan), Beethoven, Mozart, Campion, Pop Art, Lichtenstein, Stockhausen, Boulez, Cage, Spicer, Levertov, T.S. Eliot's "Four quartets," Spicer's After Lorca, Ginsberg, Olson's "Against wisdom as such," Fenellosa's "The Chinese written character as a medium for poetry," Kung, Ancient Egypt, and "Projective verse" and The Maximus poems by Olson. During the eleventh and twelfth sessions, no books were added to the reading list.

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

INT153

The Book of Thel (William Blake) --from Paterson (William Carlos Williams):"The Library," Book III --Book IV (II).

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