Hear Allen Ginsberg’s Short Free Course on Shakespeare’s Play, The Tempest (1980)

Josh Jones, Open Culture March 28, 2014   Like so many great poets, Allen Ginsberg composed extemporaneously as he spoke, in erudite paragraphs, reciting lines and whole poems from memory—in his case, usually the poems of William Blake. In a 1966 Paris Review interview, for example, he discusses and quotes Blake at length, concluding “The thing I understood from Blake was that it was possible to […]

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