Thus when Ginsberg Composes Howl he is merely building a castle from the materials created by those who preceded him Poetry can trace its origins the to origination of Man. ... These poems "are composed in the unrhymed, four-beat alliterative style characteristic of Old English poetry..."... The following pages examine Allen Ginsberg's motivations for writing Howl. First, they explain the background of the man who would comprise Howl. ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publica...

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