Allen Ginsberg - Wikipedia
WEBIrwin 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 …
Allen Ginsberg | Poetry Foundation
WEBAllen 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…
Allen Ginsberg | Biography, Howl, Poems, & Facts | Britannica
WEB1 Apr 2024 · 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: Biography - The Allen Ginsberg Project
WEBAllen 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.
Allen Ginsberg - Howl, Poems & Quotes - Biography
WEB2 Apr 2014 · 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." Updated: Apr 5, 2021. (1926-1997) Who Was...
About Allen Ginsberg | Academy of American Poets
WEBAllen Ginsberg was one of the leading icons of the Beat movement, and "Howl" became one of the most widely read book of poems of the century, translated into more than twenty-two languages.
The Allen Ginsberg Project - AllenGinsberg.org
WEBAllen 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 | PBS
WEB29 Dec 2002 · Premiere: 9/17/1997. 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...
Who Was Allen Ginsberg? - The Allen Ginsberg Project
WEBa global provocateur. Allen Ginsberg made big waves on the global stage from the 1960s until his death in 1997. He visited Cuba at the height of US/Cuba tensions and was crowned Kral Majales (King of May) in Prague during a key moment of …
Allen Ginsberg - American Literature - Oxford Bibliographies
WEB27 Oct 2022 · Introduction. Irwin Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926–d. 1997) was born in Newark, New Jersey, to a high school teacher father who published poetry and a Russian-born mother who retained her communist roots. Both her sympathy for the labor class and her gradual mental decay deeply affected Ginsberg in his youth.
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