The poems Judith and Beowulf were incased in three other works of prose but represented the earliest wholly vernacular works in what would establish the English canon. ... A "howl" is a prolonged instinctive animal cry and Ginsberg's poem forcefully depicts the sense of a "sudden, angry eruption of instincts long thwarted, of the release of excluded human and literary energies"(Breslin, 227). "Howl" violated all the artistic canons of the period and provoked a literary, social, and even legal scandal. ...

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