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Jack Kerouac Jack Kerouac
KEROUAC, JACK 1922-1969 BE at novelist The Right Time Jack Kerouac was a writer who earned his place in cultural history because of timing more than literary merit. In his books, most notably On the Road (1957), he expresses the spirit of the 1950s for an audience aimlessly seeking a suitable mode... Read more
Oliver Twist Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist The eponymous child hero of Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist became a crucial cultural icon of Victorian childhood. Indeed, Dickens published the novel serially from 1837 to 1839, coinciding with the commencement of Queen Victoria's long reign in 1837. The novel follows the... Read more
beat generation beat generation
beat generation term applied to certain American artists and writers who were popular during the 1950s. Essentially anarchic, members of the beat generation rejected traditional social and artistic forms. The beats sought immediate expression in multiple, intense experiences and beatific... Read more
Allen Ginsberg Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg , 1926-97, American poet, b. Paterson, N.J., grad. Columbia, 1949. An outspoken member of the beat generation , Ginsberg is best known for Howl (1956), a long poem attacking American values in the 1950s. The prose of Jack Kerouac , the insights of Zen Buddhism , and the free... Read more
Gregory Corso Gregory Corso
Corso, Gregory [Nunzio] (1930–2001), poet of the Beat movement from New York City and friend of Allen Ginsberg, has led a checkered life in several lands and spent three years in prison. His poems of protest, now intensely bitter, now amusingly irreverent, appear in The Vestal Lady of... Read more
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti , 1919-, American author and publisher, b. Yonkers, N.Y. In 1951 he moved to San Francisco and helped found the City Lights Bookshop, which became a center for writers of the beat generation . He has written volumes of colloquial verse such as A Coney Island of the Mind ... Read more
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Paul Celan Paul Celan
Paul Celan , pseud. of Paul Antschel , 1920-70, Romanian-French poet. Although he spent his early years in Romania and his later years in France, Celan wrote in German and is widely considered the greatest postwar poet in Europe. A Jew, who lost both parents in a Nazi camp, he composed works that... Read more
Hans Sachs Hans Sachs
Hans Sachs , 1494-1576, German poet, leading meistersinger of the Nuremberg school. A shoemaker and guild master, he wrote more than 4,000 master songs in addition to some 2,000 fables, tales in verse ( Schwanke ), morality plays, and farces. His Shrovetide plays, humorous and dramatically... Read more

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