Poetry, Modern -- 20th century
Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:
Allen Ginsberg, Basic Poetics, Part 1, 1980 January 7
The first class in Basic Poetics taught by Allen Ginsberg in 1980 at Naropa. This session discusses Shakespeare's poetry and the Lyric and Ballad poets, juxtaposing these with Modernist, Futurist, and contemporary poets such as William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Charles Reznikoff, and David Cope in order to show the evolution and direction of poetics. Ginsberg ends the session by reading extensively from Cope's selected works.
Allen Ginsberg, Basic Poetics, Part 2, 1980 January 7
Continuation of a Basic Poetics class by Allen Ginsberg in 1980. In this class he explores the world of 13th-15th C. poetry.
Allen Ginsberg, Basic Poetics, Part 3, 1980 January 7
Allen Ginsberg, Basic Poetics, Part 4, 1980 January 7
The fourth in a series of a Basic Poetics class taught by Allen Ginsberg in 1980 at Naropa. In this class, he continues his discussion of Old English Poetry.
Allen Ginsberg, Basic Poetics, Part 9, 1980 January 7
The ninth class on Basic Poetics by Allen Ginsberg. To begin this class students sing a ballad with guitar, which leads into a discussion of Basil Bunting and Quantitative Poetics.
Allen Ginsberg, Basic Poetics, Part 10, 1980 January 7
The tenth class of Basic Poetics taught by Allen Ginsberg in 1980 at Naropa. In this class he continues his discussion of Basil Bunting, Thomas Campion and John Dowland. Works read and discussed include "Thou Must Home to Shadowed Underground" and "Follow Thy Fair Sun."
Allen Ginsberg, Basic Poetics, Part 11, 1980 February 21
The eleventh class of Basic Poetics taught by Allen Ginsberg at Naropa in 1980. In this class Ginsberg discusses and reads Elizabethan English Lyric. Works discussed include "The Passionate Shepherd" by Marlowe; "The Nymph's Reply," "The Lie," and "Nature That Washed Her Hands in Milk" by Raleigh; "The Aged Lover Renounceth Love" by Thomas Vaux; "Greensleeves" by Anonymous Poet.
Allen Ginsberg, Basic Poetics, Part 12, 1980 February 25
A continuation of the class on Basic Poetics taught by Allen Ginsberg in 1980 at Naropa. In this tape the class discusses Hart Crane and Sir Phillip Sydney.
Allen Ginsberg, Basic Poetics, Part 15, 1980 February 25
A continuation of a Basic Poetics class taught by Allen Ginsberg in 1980 at Naropa. In this class Ginsberg covers William Shakespeare's sonnets. Topics include reading the sonnets as a novel of a love triangle between Shakespeare, a young man, and the Dark Lady. Some works discussed and read include Sonnets 20, 18, 29, 33, 57, 64, 65, 73, 94, 116, 129, 144, 147, 152, and 153.
Allen Ginsberg, Basic Poetics, Part 16, 1980 February 25
A continuation of a Basic Poetics class taught by Allen Ginsberg in 1980 at Naropa. Ginsberg reads and discusses a number of songs by Shakespeare. During the last part of the class the students recite spontaneous poems.