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The English Poets: William Blake Part 2

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Title	The English Poets: William Blake Part 2
Performer(s)	Ginsberg, Allen
Subject 1	Romanticism--Poetry.
Subject 2	Blake, William, 1757-1827. Songs of innocence and of experience.
Subject 3	Blake, William, 1757-1827--Manuscripts.
Abstract	Allen Ginsberg continues his lecture series on the English poets, with an emphasis on William Blake. He reads several poems from “Songs of Innocence and Experience” including “The Sick Rose” and “Ah, Sunflower.” He also reads poems from Blake’s manuscripts such as “To Nobodaddy,” “The Crystal Cabinet,” and “The Mental Traveller.” The lecture ends with Ginsberg singing “How sweet I roam’d from field to field…” a song Blake wrote when he was fourteen years old.
Content	0:00 Allen Ginsberg begins class. 3:15 Sitting meditation. 6:00 Explains how one’s mind can open up by paying attention to the periphery of the optical field. 8:01 Reads Thomas Greaves’ “What is beauty but a breath…” a song from “An Elizabethan Songbook” edited by Noah Greenberg. 12:53 Reads “Love” by George Herbert. 16:23 Moves on to Blake. Looks up catterpillar in “A Blake Dictionary.” Discusses the line from “Auguries of Innocence:” “The catterpillar on the Leaf repeats to thee thy Mothers grief.” The loopholes and openness of Blake’s system. 22:48 Reads Blake’s “The Sick Rose.” Interpretations. Ginsberg describes a vision he had about “The Sick Rose” and reads a poem he wrote: “Rose of spirit rose of light…” 33:23 Reads “Ah, Sunflower.” 50:36 The effect of Blake’s poems on people’s consciousness. Blake’s natural altered states of consciousness. 58:00 Reads from Blake’s manuscripts: “To Nobodaddy,” “Are not the joys of morning…” “Remove away that blackening church…” “Abstinence sows sand all over…” “In a wife I would desire…” “He who binds to himself a joy…” Sings “Let the Brothels of Paris be opened…” and discusses the political and psychological meaning. 1:09:51 “The angel that presided ‘ore my birth…” and “The Crystal Cabinet.” 1:15:15 “The Mental Traveller.” 1:28:30 What William Butler Yates, Foster Damon, and Lionel Trilling said about “The Mental Traveller.” 1:38:25 Ginsberg sings an early song Blake wrote when he was fourteen years old, “How Sweet I roam’d from field to field…” which The Fugs sang. 1:43:11 Recording ends.
Type of Event	practicum
Date Recorded	1991-04-19
File Format	.mp3
Performance Length	1:43:11
Rights Information	Copyright release given to Naropa University for the purposes of preservation, marketing and educational use. All other rights reserved to individual performers.
Department	Writing
Tape Order	2 of 2
Publisher	Allen Ginsberg Library and Naropa University Archives
Type	Sound
Language	eng
File Name	91P178.mp3

The English Poets: William Blake Part 2

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