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.