Allen Ginsberg 1976-08-02
Naropa University, Boulder, CO
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Comment
First half of a class with Allen Ginsberg reading and discussing the work of Walt Whitman and William Wordsworth, focusing on their later work. Ginsberg reads examples of Whitman's prose and poems, including "Sands at Seventy," Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey," and examples of Wordsworth's "bad poetry." Ginsberg also reads and discusses Wordsworth's sonnets in favor of capital punishment, "Sonnets on the Punishment of Death."
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Fri Jun 03 2005 11:05:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
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Fri Jun 03 2005 11:05:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
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