In 1950, Richard Brautigan was part of a movement started in San Francisco, called "The Beat Generation". In a book published in 2003 called "The Beat generation in San Francisco, a literary tour" by Bill Morgan, the people from these movements are described as "Stone Age hippies, in that they anticipated and articulated many of themes[] pacifism, Buddhism, the first voicings of an ecological consciousness....
"Do not follow where the path may lead... Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."Robert Frost Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco, March 26, 1874 and died in Boston, January 29, 1963. He one of America's leading 20th-century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize....
The third decade of the twentieth century brought on more explicit writers than ever before, but none were as expressive as Anne Sexton. Her style of writing, her works, the image that she created, and the crazy life that she led are all prime examples of this. Known as one of the most "confession...
. / I remember my crucifixion and bloody coronation / I remember the mockers and the buffeting insults / The sepulcher and the white linen have yielded me up / I am alive in New York and San Francisco, / Again I tread the streets after two thousand years." ...
"The Tuft of Flowers- It has been said that many times that all men have a common bond or a thread that joins them together. "The Tuft of Flowers- by Robert Frost which was published in 1913 is an excellent example of such a proverb. Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874 and...
Robert Frost was considered the "most popular modern American poet of the twentieth century" (Literature Online 1). His use of natural images and traditional poetic technique give him a fashion that is desirable to the fictitious ears. Throughout his literary career, Frost had been both celeb...
l. Definitions Transcendentalism- a system of philosophy, especially that associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and other New England writers, that emphasizes intuition or the divine Romanticism- in the arts, the style and theories of the romantic movement, or the movement itself Aphorism- a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement originating in the 18th century 11. The transcendentalists A. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) - American essayist and poet, a leader of the philosophical movement of transcendentalism. Influenced by such schools of thought as English romanticism, ...
