RR Pod E25P1 Dr. Luke Walker -Allen Ginsberg & His Blakean Revival

Full Title: RR Pod E25P1 Dr. Luke Walker- Allen Ginsberg & His Blakean Revival: 'Counterculture' and Esoteric Intersections
In Part One, Luke discusses the great influence of the poet and artist William Blake on Allen Ginsberg, one of the most influential people from the Beat Generation and the ‘counterculture’ movement of 1960s United States. He also talks in detail about Ginsberg’s “Blake Vision,” the name Ginsberg gave to a series of extraordinary events in his life in 1948. We then discuss Luke’s article “Tangled Up in Blake” that focuses on Ginsberg’s views about Bob Dylan and their complex relationship. Lastly, we talk about the influence of Buddhism on Ginsberg and how this affected his views about Blake and his worldview in general.
Dr Luke Walker has published widely on the intersections between British Romantic poetry, American counterculture, and esotericism.
His publications include "‘One physical-mental inspiration of thought': Allen Ginsberg and Black Mountain poetics", in The Beats, Black Mountain, and New Modes in American Poetry, ed. Matt Theado (2021), “Beat Britain: poetic vision and division in Albion’s ‘underground’”, in The Routledge Handbook of International Beat Literature, ed. A. Robert Lee (2018), “Tangled up in Blake: the triangular relationship among Dylan, Blake, and the Beats”, in Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2, ed. James Rovira (2018), “Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wales Visitation’ as a neo-Romantic response to Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey’”, in Romanticism journal (2013), and “Allen Ginsberg’s Blakean Albion,” in Comparative American Studies journal (2013). Most recently, Luke co-edited a special issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, on “The Artist of the Future Age: William Blake, Neo-Romanticism, Counterculture and Now” (2022).
He is now writing a book entitled William Blake and Allen Ginsberg: Romanticism, Counterculture and Radical Reception.
PROGRAM NOTES
Dr. Luke Walker:
academia.edu page: home.academia....
Twitter: home.academia....
Selected Articles:
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William Blake Archive: blakearchive.org/
Allen Ginsberg sings William Blake's 'The Nurse's Song': • Allen Ginsberg sings W...
Mike Goode, 'Blakespotting': www.academia.e...
Allen Ginsberg: allenginsberg....
'Wichita Vortex Sutra': chriscander.co...
Bob Dylan 'Tempest': • Bob Dylan - Tempest (O...
'Rough and Rowdy Ways': • I Contain Multitudes
'Subterranean Homesick Blues': • Bob Dylan - Subterrane...
OTHER RESOURCES:
www.pattismith....
www.kaetempest...
johnhiggs.com/

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Keep up the great work 👏
This was a fascinating discussion.
Especially the section about Blake, the Romantics, and the Pre-Raphaelites.
These counter-currents reach all the way back to the "gnostics" and well before.

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Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!