A report on Allen Ginsberg and Beat Generation
As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation.
- Allen GinsbergAllen Ginsberg's Howl (1956), William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch (1959), and Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957) are among the best known examples of Beat literature.
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William Carlos Williams
0 linksAmerican poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism.
American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism.
He had a significant influence on many of the American literary movements of the 1950s, including the Beat movement, the San Francisco Renaissance, the Black Mountain school, and the New York School.
One of Williams's more dynamic relationships as a mentor was with fellow New Jersey poet Allen Ginsberg.
William Blake
1 linksEnglish poet, painter, and printmaker.
English poet, painter, and printmaker.
Blake had an enormous influence on the beat poets of the 1950s and the counterculture of the 1960s, frequently being cited by such seminal figures as beat poet Allen Ginsberg, songwriters Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, Van Morrison, and English writer Aldous Huxley.
Jim Cohn
1 linksPoet, poetry activist, and spoken word artist in the United States.
Poet, poetry activist, and spoken word artist in the United States.
He received a BA from the University of Colorado at Boulder in English (1976) and a Certificate of Poetics (1980) from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University where he was a teaching assistant to Allen Ginsberg.
In 1996, Jim began planning for an online poetry project that would explore Beat Generation influences on the Postbeat Poets.
Columbia University
0 linksPrivate Ivy League research university in New York City.
Private Ivy League research university in New York City.
Columbia alumni have made an indelible mark in the field of American poetry and literature, with such people as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, pioneers of the Beat Generation; and Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, seminal figures in the Harlem Renaissance, all having attended the university.
Surrealism
2 linksCultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself.
Cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself.
Many writers from and associated with the Beat Generation were influenced greatly by Surrealists.
A few examples include Bob Kaufman, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
The Clash
0 linksEnglish rock band formed in London in 1976 who were key players in the original wave of British punk rock.
English rock band formed in London in 1976 who were key players in the original wave of British punk rock.
Though filled with offbeat songs, experiments with sound collage, and a spoken word vocal by Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, it contained two "radio friendly" tracks.
Brooklyn College
0 linksPublic university in Brooklyn, New York.
Public university in Brooklyn, New York.
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997), Beat Generation poet and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry finalist; Distinguished Professor of English from 1986 to 1997, replacing Ashbery (who accepted a MacArthur Fellowship and later moved to Bard College)