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ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997).

Currency:GBP Category:Collectibles Start Price:NA Estimated At:60.00 - 80.00 GBP
ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997).

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Allen Ginsberg autograph, mounted and framed.


Arriving in New York City in 1944 to study at Columbia University, young Allen Ginsberg formed a close friendship with then-unknowns Jack Kerouac, Jack's friend Neal Cassady and two legendary Times Square junkie outlaws, wise from their time on the streets, William S Burroughs and Herbert Huncke. These relationships eventually flowered into the original literary movement known as the Beat Generation.

Ginsberg’s groundbreaking performance of “Howl” in 1955 in San Francisco began an epic career that would eventually place this poet in the lineage of his hero and great “courage teacher” Walt Whitman and advance (following upon the work of Edgar Allan Poe, Hart Crane, Ezra Pound and, most notably, William Carlos Williams) the development of a specifically American vernacular in poetry.