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

Recorded at the University at Buffalo on July 11 and 12, 1968 by Allen De Loach for the Poetry Collection on two Scotch reel-to-reel tapes.

Among the subjects Duncan discussed during the ninth and tenth sessions were Freud, Jung, Hesiod, Homer, Pindar, Sappho, Hesiod's Theogony, The Old Testament, Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion by Jane Harrison, Homer, Plato, Herodotus, Euripides, Zoroaster, Lao-tse, Kung, Pythagoras, Pound, Williams, Olson, Gertrude Stein, Blake, Louis Simpson, James Dickey, Goethe, Yeats, Milton, Dante, Bunyan, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Robert Browning, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Coleridge, Newton, Nerval, Robin Blaser, The New Testament, William Law, Aristotle, Robert Graves, Laura Riding, Dylan Thomas, Rimbaud, Piaget, Shakespeare, H.D., Joyce, "The burrow" by Kafka, Rilke, Turner, Charles Stein, Spicer, Orph??e by Cocteau, St. John of the Cross, Timbers by Ben Jonson, ESP, Buddha, Kung, Christ, and Pythagoras, those last four as "masters and teachers," The H.D. Book (Duncan), and Moby Dick. During the ninth and tenth sessions, the books added to the reading list were Aurora, The signature of all things, The great six points, and Mysterium Magnum by Jacob Boehme, Man on his nature by Charles Sherrington, The circulation of the blood by William Harvey again, and The inferno by August Strindberg.

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

INT152

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