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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 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 Books).
Jul 25, 2024 · Allen Ginsberg (born June 3, 1926, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.—died April 5, 1997, New York, New York) was an American poet whose epic poem Howl (1956) is considered to be one of the most significant products of the Beat movement.
Jan 27, 2002 · Allen Ginsberg: Biography. Renowned poet, world traveler, spiritual seeker, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human and civil rights, photographer and songwriter, political gadfly, teacher and co-founder of a poetics school.
Apr 2, 2014 · Best Known For: Allen Ginsberg is one of the 20th century's most influential poets, regarded as a founding father of the Beat Movement and known for works like "Howl." Industries.
Allen 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 ...
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.
Dec 29, 2002 · 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”...
llen Ginsberg, the poet laureate of the Beat Generation whose ''Howl!'' became a manifesto for the sexual revolution and a cause celebre for free speech in the 1950's, eventually earning its...
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and author. He was part of the Beat Generation movement of poets in the 1950s.
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