- 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
- 10 of the Best Allen Ginsberg Poems Everyone Should Read
The American poet Allen Ginsberg (1926-97) is one of the most important writers associated with the Beat movement of the 1950s The Beats tended to write in free verse, seeking a more direct and authentic poetic voice than the colder, more objective tone of earlier mid-century poetry
- Allen Ginsberg: Biography - The Allen Ginsberg Project
Ginsberg might have been an American by birth, but through his extensive travel he developed a global consciousness that greatly affected his writings and viewpoint He spent extended periods of time in Mexico, South America, Europe and India
- 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
- 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
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Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; 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
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