Allen Ginsberg Reading Blake's lyrics & chords

(Main article: Allen Ginsberg) In 1948 in an apartment in Harlem, Ginsberg had an auditory hallucination of William Blake reading his poems "Ah Sunflower," "The Sick Rose," and "Little Girl Lost" (later referred to as his "Blake vision"). Ginsberg was reading these poems at the time, and he said he was very familiar with them; at one point he claimed he heard them being read by what sounded like the voice of God but what he interpreted as the voice of Blake himself. He had at that moment what he claimed to be pivotal revelations that defined h...read more