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Bookmark or Share- Allen Ginsberg - WikipediaIrwin 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.
- Allen Ginsberg | Biography, Howl, Poems, & Facts | BritannicaAllen 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.
- Who Was Allen Ginsberg? - The Allen Ginsberg ProjectAllen Ginsberg was an outspoken voice for human rights, gay liberation, freedom of speech and ecology. The most politically-engaged poet of the 20th century, he protested against the Vietnam War , nuclear weapons , sexual repression , censorship , corporate abuses , draconian drug laws , the FBI and the CIA , and spoke out for a new vision of ...
- Allen Ginsberg | About Allen Ginsberg | American Masters | PBSAllen 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...
- Allen Ginsberg | Poetry FoundationAllen Ginsberg was an acclaimed poet and a leading figure of the Beat Generation whose radical literary works and advocacy for social change left an indelible mark on American counterculture. Ginsberg first came to public attention in 1956 with the publication of Howl and Other Poems (City Lights…
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