The Allen Ginsberg Project blog has started posting transcripts of the beat poet’s lectures on Blake’s Book of Urizen from a 1978 seminar on Blake. I’ve found the second and third lectures to be the most worth reading:
- Lecture 1 (mostly administrative discussion)
- Lecture 2 (the lecture starts–includes discussion of William Godwin and gnosticism)
- Lecture 3 (Urizen and Milton)
- Lecture 4
(found via “The Cynic Sang” Blake Archive blog, which has posts on both Blake and the technical work of the Archive.)