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Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997

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Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

Allen Ginsberg, Basic Poetics, Part 17, 1980 February 25

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Identifier: naropa_ginsberg_basic_poetics_part17
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A continuation of a Basic Poetics class taught by Allen Ginsberg in 1980 at Naropa. In this class students sing a 40 min. improvised blues.

Dates: 1980 February 25

Allen Ginsberg, Basic Poetics, Part 18, 1980 February 25

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Identifier: naropa_ginsberg_basic_poetics_part18
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The eighteenth class in Basic Poetics taught by Allen Ginsberg in 1980 at Naropa. In this class he uses "A Litany in Time of Plague" by Thomas Nashe to discuss cadence and description in poetry. Other poets discussed in this context are Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, Louis Zukofsky, and William Carlos Williams whose essay on Alfred Steiglitz is read in class. He ends with a brief comment on Marianne Moore's use of Light Rhymes.

Dates: 1980 February 25

Allen Ginsberg, Basic Poetics, Part 19, 1980 March 27

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Identifier: naropa_ginsberg_basic_poetics_part19
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A continuation of a Basic Poetics class taught by Allen Ginsberg in 1980 at Naropa. Ginsberg begins discussing the prosody of Robert Creeley then segues into the bulk of the lecture centered around the poetry of the English Metaphysical poet John Donne.

Dates: 1980 March 27

Allen Ginsberg, Basic Poetics, Part 20, 1980 March 27

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Identifier: naropa_ginsberg_basic_poetics_part20
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A continuation of a Basic Poetics class taught by Allen Ginsberg in 1980 at Naropa. Ginsberg begins by discussing the prosody of Ezra Pound's Pisan Cantos, reading #80 in full. Then he segues into the bulk of the lecture centered around the prosody of English poet Ben Jonson.

Dates: 1980 March 27

Allen Ginsberg, Basic Poetics, Part 21, 1980 April 17

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Identifier: naropa_ginsberg_basic_poetics_part21
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A continuation of a Basic Poetics class taught by Allen Ginsberg in 1980 at Naropa. Ginsberg begins the class by discussing and reading from George Herbert. He then reads a selection of Jack Kerouac's poetry, and ends by reading and discussing selections of James Shirley and Thomas Carey's poetry.

Dates: 1980 April 17

Allen Ginsberg, Basic Poetics, Part 22, 1980 April 10

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Identifier: naropa_ginsberg_basic_poetics_part22
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A continuation of a Basic Poetics class taught by Allen Ginsberg in 1980 at Naropa. Ginsberg and class discuss and read from the works of Ben Jonson and Robert Herrick. Ginsberg focuses mostly on the prosody of these poets' work.

Dates: 1980 April 10

Allen Ginsberg, Basic Poetics, Part 23, 1980 April 14

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Identifier: naropa_ginsberg_basic_poetics_part23
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A Basic Poetics class taught by Allen Ginsberg in 1980 at Naropa. Ginsberg and class read and discuss the poetry of Hart Crane, George Herbert, Henry King, and Dylan Thomas. Ginsberg also speaks extensively about the notions of condensation, vision, and meter.

Dates: 1980 April 14

Allen Ginsberg, Basic Poetics, Part 24, 1980 April 21

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Identifier: naropa_ginsberg_basic_poetics_part24
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A Basic Poetics class taught by Allen Ginsberg in 1980 at Naropa. Ginsberg and class begin by discussing the poetry of Hart Crane and John Milton with regards to prosody. Ginsberg spends most of the rest of the class reading from and discussing John Milton's "Paradise Lost."

Dates: 1980 April 21

Allen Ginsberg, Basic Poetics, Part 26, 1980 April 28

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Identifier: naropa_ginsberg_basic_poetics_part26
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A Basic Poetics class taught by Allen Ginsberg in 1980 at Naropa. The majority of the class is spent reading and discussing the work of the poets John Suckling and Andrew Marvell. The work of Anne Bradstreet, Abraham Cowley, Richard Crawshaw, Thomas Carew, and Richard Lovelace is also discussed.

Dates: 1980 April 28

Allen Ginsberg, Basic Poetics, Part 27, 1980 May 1

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Identifier: naropa_ginsberg_basic_poetics_part27
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A Basic Poetics class taught by Allen Ginsberg in 1980 at Naropa. Ginsberg reads from his book "The Gates of Wrath" to demonstrate to his students certain forms of English meter as employed in his own work.

Dates: 1980 May 1