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Allen Ginsberg - Wikipedia Irwin Allen Ginsberg ( ˈɡɪnzbɜːrɡ ; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation
Allen Ginsberg | Biography, Howl, Poems, Facts | Britannica Allen Ginsberg, American poet whose epic poem Howl (1956) is considered to be one of the most significant products of the Beat movement The work owes something to the romantic bohemianism of Walt Whitman, and it also dwells on homosexuality, drug addiction, and Buddhism, among other topics
Allen Ginsberg | The Poetry Foundation Ginsberg attracted such prominent writers as Ron Padgett and William S Burroughs to speak and teach at the school As a result of his rise to influence and his staying power as a figure in American art and culture, Ginsberg’s work was the object of much scholarly attention throughout his lifetime
The Allen Ginsberg Project - AllenGinsberg. org New Jersey-born Allen Ginsberg reached far beyond the American tradition with his vibrant life in poetry, bridging literary connections with past and present, recognizing the inter-relatedness of poetry and poetics from around the world
About Allen Ginsberg | American Masters - PBS Allen Ginsberg, the visionary poet and founding father of the Beat generation inspired the American counterculture of the second half of the 20th century with groundbreaking poems such as “Howl
About Allen Ginsberg | Academy of American Poets The son of Louis and Naomi Ginsberg, two Jewish members of the New York literary counterculture of the 1920s, Ginsberg was raised among several progressive political perspectives
Allen Ginsberg - Columbia University Quintessential Beat, countercultural prophet, Buddhist-Jewish adventurer, distinguished professor—Ginsberg lived as an irrepressible iconoclast in the mold of William Blake and Walt Whitman
Allen Ginsberg Reads His Poetry - Library of Congress Allen Ginsberg discusses his work and the poets who influenced him, including Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams Born in Newark, NJ in 1926, Ginsberg became a major figure in American poetry in the late 1950s after his book, Howl and Other Poems, was published
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) - Annenberg Learner Ginsberg’s poetry features colloquial language riddled with slang and obscenities, a prophetic tone, lengthy lines meant to be performed aloud, and a desire to capture the author’s physical and emotional state at the time of creation
Allen Ginsberg - Oxford Reference A talented performer, Ginsberg won an immense international following in the 1960s He was instrumental in reviving poetry as a popular spoken art and played an effective role in various movements of the time – for civil rights, peace, gay liberation, and so on