Gregory Corso manuscript material : 1 item 1964

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Gregory Corso manuscript material : 1 item 1964

The Beat poet Gregory Corso (1930-2001), a native of New York City, taught intermittently at the State University of New York at Buffalo during the 1960s. Shelley was among his favorite poets. Lecture on Shelley's Prometheus unbound : (S'ANA 0928) : typescript with autograph annotations and two autograph pages, 1964. Notes (6 typed pages and 2 handwritten) for a lecture on the Promethean myth and Shelley's lyrical drama Prometheus unbound. Signed by Corso at the top of the first page, and dated: Buffalo 1964.

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State university of New York at Buffalo

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Corso, Gregory

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American writer, primarily of poetry, Corso was born in New York City in 1930. He worked as a migrant laborer, newspaper reporter for the L.A. Examiner, and merchant seaman before joining the English Department at SUNY Buffalo in 1965. In the mid-1950s he began to give public readings of his poetry, often sharing the stage with other Beat poets. His 1958 volume, GASOLINE, marks the beginning of his long association with San Francisco's City Lights Bookstore and the Bay Area in general, which fig...

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), poet, was born at Field Place, Warnham, on 4 August 1792, and attended the Sion House academy at Brentford, and then Eton. He entered University College, Oxford, in 1810, but was sent down the following year after writing the pamphlet The necessity of atheism . He eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook, whom he married in Edinburgh in 1811. Shelley spent 1812 in Ireland, addressing meetings and writing pamphlets. In 1814 he left his wife and fled to the conti...