![]() ![]() ![]() Ginsberg sees himself as a part of the prophetic tradition in poetry begun by William Blake and continued by Walt Whitman. '\Collected Poems\', 1947-85 (1995) contains all of his important work '\White Shroud\' (1987) includes poems from the 1980s. '\The Fall of America\' received the National Book Award for 1974. In the 1960s, while vigorously participating in the anti-Vietnam War movement, he published several poetic works, including '\Reality Sandwiches\' (1963) and '\Planet News\' (1969). In his second major work, '\Kaddish\' (1961), a poem on the anniversary of his mother's death, Ginsberg described their anguished relationship. ![]() Ginsberg's bardic rage against material values, however, was in a voice very different from Eliot's scholarly mourning for the loss of the spirit. Eliot captured the anxiety of the 1920s in The Waste Land. His first published work, 'Howl and Other Poems' (1956), sparked the San Francisco Renaissance and defined the generation of the '50s with an authority and vision that had not occurred in the United States since T. ![]() Allen Ginsberg, born in Newark, N.J., was an American poet and leading apostle of the beat generation. ![]()
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