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George Gascoigne's Lullaby
[George Gascoigne (1535-1577)][Allen Ginsberg's 1980 Naropa "Basic Poetics" class continues. An inscription on the tape notes that the first...
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Marlowe & Raleigh (The Passionate Shepherd)
[Abraham Bloemaert - Shepherd and Shepherdess (1627) oil on canvas - in the collection of Niedersächsisches Landesmuseumover (Germany)]AG: Does everybody here from high school remember (Christopher)...
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"Even Such is Time" (Raleigh's Execution)
[The execution of Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) on 29 October, 1618, at Old Palace Yard, Westminster, London (Anonymous Eighteenth-Century English engraving)]AG: So, then..Student: Why was (Walter)...
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[Gregory Corso's Painting of Edgar Allan Poe]October 7, 1849 - the death of Edgar Allan Poe. More Allen-Ginsberg-on-Poe postings here, here and here October 2017 marks the Centennial of the English...
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Terry Gross Interview, 1994
[Terry Gross. 1987 in the studio on NPR's "Fresh Air"]"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn,...
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Walter Raleigh's "The Lie"
[The Buddha teaching The Four Noble Truths. Sanskrit AstasahsrikaPrajnaparamita Sutra manuscript, written in the Ranjana script, Nalanda, Bihar, India, circa 700-1100 CE]AG: I'd like to go with...
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"Nature That Washed Her Hands in Milk"
AG: [continuing with the poems of Sir Walter Raleigh] - Then, there's some pretty snow, snow stuff - snow and milk - page 137. A couple of… that one stanza there, one or two stanzas ,that are on .....
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Comprehensive Reading
[Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)]AG: Edmund Spenseris a colossus, and he's so big that I think we'll go around him Except, maybe, one or...
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Edmund Spenser (Epithalamion)
AG on early English poetry continuesAG: Well, [Edmund Spenser] I think I'll read one stanza (the first and last stanza of the Epithalamion) just to get to swing through one long stanza, strophe, or...
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Bob Dylan Wins The Nobel Prize in Literature
[Bob Dylan & Allen Ginsberg - "The Music Lesson" - Photograph by Elsa Dorfman - © Elsa Dorfman] The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 was awarded today to Bob Dylan"for having created new...
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[Bob Dylan] [Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg, San Francisco, 1965, photo c. Larry...
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Allen Ginsberg in London 1965
["Allen Ginsberg Reading At Better Books", LP cover, 1965 - Illustration by Alan Aldridge]A rare and important Allen Ginsberg reading in London - his famous reading in the basement of...
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Sunday October 16 - Oscar Wilde's Birthday
[Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas ("Bosie")]Allen (from a letter to the author (M.G.Roy) and the editors of the "Beat Generation" Monarch Notes, December...
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Vital Native American Eco-Resistance (1980 & 2016)
[Native American-Led Protests Against Dakota Access Oil Pipeline, October 2016]Some sort of synchronicity. We had scheduled this post (Allen at Naropa in 1980, announcing a Native...
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A 1980 "Teach-In"
[The format of the "Teach-In", derived from 'Sixties protests against the Vietnam War]AG: And theother thing, simultaneously is a heating up of all the war protest groups - the...
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Rimbaud's Birthday
[Allen Ginsberg]Arthur Rimbaud's birthdayFor Rimbaud on the Allen Ginsberg Project - see hereandhereandhere A defence ofRimbaud by Allen...
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[Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)]Samuel Taylor Coleridge's birthday today - from Richard Holmes' definitive biography:"(William) Wordsworth called...
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The Reverend Howard Finster
[Allen Ginsberg sitting on a Howard Finster chair in Paradise Garden, Pennville, Georgia, 1988]The Reverend Howard Finster, Baptist preacher and internationally-renowned folk artist passed away 15...
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Tichborne's Elegy
[Chidiock Tichborne (c.1562-1586)]AG: One thing we forgot was Chidiock Tichborne's elegy (on page one-three-two). That has a really pretty tune. I...
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Thomas Vaux - The Aged Lover Renounceth Love
[Thomas, Lord Vaux (2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden) (1509-1556) - by Hans Holbein, the Younger (1497-1543)]Well, ok, so we've had Tichborne, and then there's another similar poem that's not in this book...
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Greensleeves
["My Lady Greensleeves" - Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) - oil on panel 33 x 27.3 cms (1863) at the Fogg Art Museum (Harvard University), Cambridge, Massachusetts]AG: And has anybody...
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Spenser - Like As A Huntsman..
[Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)]AG: Okay, next - (Edmund) Spenser! - We'll have a little bit of Spenser anyway. Page one-sixty ---page one-sixty ....
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The big news today. Upcoming on the Ginsberg site, we're working on a number of upgrades and changes. Stay tuned (and bear with us as we iron out all of the issues of transition). Starting next week,...
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New Website & Blog Address
As you've probably noticed, our posts have dropped off since October 30, 2016. That's because we're moving everything over to our new and revised website at AllenGinsberg.Org So grab a coffe, a tea,...
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