The most important and influential of this new wave of folk-protest songwriters was Bob Dylan, whose complex lyrics not only provided a commentary on contemporary social issues but on his own life experiences too and thus, paralleled the work of earlier Beat Generation writers like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac.

" This commentary by Lowell was made in reference to the popularity of Allen Ginsberg and the Beat Generation poets and was a signal from Lowell that he was trying to incorporate some of their " raw " energy into his own poetry.

Ginsberg wrote in his journal at the time: “ Know these words, and you speak the Carr language: fruit, phallus, clitoris, cacoethes, feces, foetus, womb, Rimbaud .” It was Carr who first introduced Ginsberg to the poetry and the story of Arthur Rimbaud, the 19th-century French poet whose youthful brilliance, decadent style and early death make him an enduring favorite among college students.

After returning there, he formed a number of grassroots organizations based on the notion of self-reliance: Zanempilo, the Zimele Trust Fund ( which helped support former political prisoners and their families ), Njwaxa Leather-Works Project and the Ginsberg Education Fund.

His roles in Round the Horne included Rambling Syd Rumpo, the eccentric folk singer ; Dr Chou En Ginsberg, MA ( failed ), Oriental criminal mastermind ; J. Peasemold Gruntfuttock, telephone heavy breather and dirty old man ; and Sandy of the camp couple Julian and Sandy ( Julian was played by Hugh Paddick ).

During its lifetime Hotel Chelsea has provided a home to many great writers and thinkers including Mark Twain, O. Henry, Herbert Huncke, Dylan Thomas, Arthur C. Clarke, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Arnold Weinstein, Leonard Cohen, Sharmagne Leland-St. John, Arthur Miller, Quentin Crisp, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac ( who wrote On the Road there ), Robert Hunter, Jack Gantos, Brendan Behan, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Thomas Wolfe, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Kennedy, Matthew Richardson, James T. Farrell, Valerie Solanas, Mary Cantwell, and René Ricard.

Bob Dylan holds a cue card in the music video for " Subterranean Homesick Blues ". The film features Joan Baez, Donovan and Alan Price ( who had just left The Animals ), Dylan's manager Albert Grossman and his road manager Bob Neuwirth ; Marianne Faithfull, John Mayall, Ginger Baker, and Allen Ginsberg may also be glimpsed in the background.

It starred poets Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso, artists Larry Rivers ( Milo ) and Alice Neel ( bishop's mother ), musician David Amram, actors Richard Bellamy ( Bishop ) and Delphine Seyrig ( Milo's wife ), dancer Sally Gross ( bishop's sister ), and Pablo Frank, Robert Frank's then-young son.

Classmates Carr and Ginsberg discussed the need for a " New Vision " ( a term borrowed from Arthur Rimbaud ), to counteract what they perceived as their teachers ' conservative, formalistic literary ideals.

Although Ginsberg referred to many of his friends and acquaintances ( including Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Peter Orlovsky, Lucien Carr, and Herbert Huncke ), the primary emotional drive was his sympathy for Carl Solomon, to whom it was dedicated ; he met Solomon in a mental institution and became friends with him.

Ginsberg admitted later this sympathy for Solomon was connected to bottled-up guilt and sympathy for his mother's schizophrenia ( she had been lobotomized ), an issue he was not yet ready to address directly.

Baldwin also knew Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, Billy Dee Williams, Huey P. Newton, Nikki Giovanni, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Genet ( with whom he campaigned on behalf of the Black Panther Party ), Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, Rip Torn, Alex Haley, Miles Davis, Amiri Baraka, Martin Luther King, Jr., Margaret Mead, Josephine Baker, Allen Ginsberg and Maya Angelou.

" They included Orson Bean ( b. 1928 ), Sean Connery ( b. 1930 ), Allen Ginsberg ( 1926 – 1997 ), Paul Goodman 1911 – 1972 ), Jack Kerouac ( 1922 – 1969 ), Isaac Rosenfeld ( 1918 – 1956 ), J. D. Salinger ( 1919 – 2010 ), William Steig ( 1907 – 2003 ), and Robert Anton Wilson ( 1932 – 2007 ).

Allen Ginsberg set the tone of the movement in his poem Howl, a Whitmanesque work that began: " I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness ..." Among the most representative achievements of the Beats in the novel are Jack Kerouac's On the Road ( 1957 ), the chronicle of a soul-searching travel through the continent, and William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch ( 1959 ), a more experimental work structured as a series of vignettes relating, among other things, the narrator's travels and experiments with hard drugs.

The village is somewhat off the beaten path ( In spite of US Route 20 passing a few miles north ), not much visited by tourists ; Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg used to visit to escape city life, especially in the autumn when the maple leaves change color.

Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg ( 18 August 1856 – 2 January 1927 ), primarily known by his Hebrew name and pen name, Ahad Ha ' am, (, lit.

* Paul D. Ginsberg ( born 1962 ), prominent mergers and acquisitions attorney.

He was a contemporary and friend of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, Leroi Jones ( now known as Amiri Baraka ), Gregory Corso, Diane Di Prima, Bob Kaufman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and others.

A major figure in the expansion of the genre was promoter Bill Graham, whose first rock concert in 1965 was a benefit that included Alan Ginsberg and the then unknown Jefferson Airplane on the bill.

Artaud in particular was very influential to many of the Beats, but especially Ginsberg and Carl Solomon.

He notes that those born in the years before the actual boom were often the most influential people among boomers ; for example, The Beatles, Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones Charlie Watts, he was born on June 2, 1941 to and writers like Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg who were considerably older than the boomer generation.

One of Williams's most dynamic relationships as a mentor was with fellow New Jerseyite Allen Ginsberg.

Horne's adversary in many James Bond parodies was the Oriental criminal mastermind ( and Fu Manchu parody ) Dr Chu En Ginsberg MA ( failed ) ( Williams, accompanied by his common-as-muck concubine Lotus Blossom, played by a cockney Paddick ).

" Beat " was slang for " beaten down " or down-trodden, but to Kerouac and Ginsberg, it also had a spiritual connotation as in " beatitude ".

The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late Forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way — a vision gleaned from the way we had heard the word " beat " spoken on street corners on Times Square and in the Village, in other cities in the downtown city night of postwar America — beat, meaning down and out but full of intense conviction.

Originally intended to be called The Beat Generation the title Pull My Daisy was taken from the poem of the same name written by Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Cassady in the late 1940s.

The novel was praised by many, including Allen Ginsberg, who predicted that it would " explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years.

It was the scene of a nationally followed First Amendment struggle and was visited by Allen Ginsberg in 1966 ( the name had been changed to the Magic Theatre Vortex Art Gallery ) where he first read his long poem " Wichita Vortex Sutra.

It was Ginsberg, in particular, I was referring to.

According to Kramer, the MC5 of this period was politically influenced by the Marxism of the Black Panther Party and Fred Hampton, and poets of the Beat Generation such as Allen Ginsberg and Ed Sanders, or Modernist's poets like Charles Olson.

Ginsberg was arrested in 1949.

The police attempted to pull over Ginsberg while he was driving with Huncke, his car filled with stolen items Huncke planned to fence.

Ginsberg was given the option to plead insanity to avoid a jail term, and was committed for 90 days to Bellevue Hospital, where he met Carl Solomon.

Edgar Allan Poe is occasionally acknowledged, and Ginsberg claimed Emily Dickinson was an influence on Beat poetry.

Pound was specifically important to Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg.

Williams was a personal mentor to Ginsberg, both being from Paterson, New Jersey.

Ginsberg was close friends with Bob Dylan and toured with him on the Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975.

Ginsberg was friends with Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, a group of which Cassady was a member, which also included members of the Grateful Dead.

In response to Ginsberg's reading, McClure wrote: " Ginsberg read on to the end of the poem, which left us standing in wonder, or cheering and wondering, but knowing at the deepest level that a barrier had been broken, that a human voice and body had been hurled against the harsh wall of America ..." Soon afterwards, it was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who ran City Lights Bookstore and the City Lights Press.

Ginsberg began the poem in the stepped triadic form he took from Williams but, in the middle of typing the poem, his style altered such that his own unique form ( a long line based on breath organized by a fixed base ) began to emerge.

The translation used here is that published by James King ( 1878 ), based on translations by M. Ganneau and Dr. Ginsberg.

Ginsberg wrote a screenplay based on the poem.

Born to Jewish parents as Samuel Ginsberg in Podwołoczyska ( Pidvolochysk, then Galicia, Austria-Hungary ), he adopted the name " Krivitsky " ( a name based on the Slavic root for " crooked, twisted ") as a revolutionary nom de guerre when he entered the Bolshevik intelligence around 1917.

The character Frank Carmody is based on William Burroughs, and Adam Moorad on Allen Ginsberg.

The film is based around a series of psychedelic performances and interviews and features live performance by Pink Floyd, together with footage of John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Mick Jagger, Vanessa Redgrave, Lee Marvin, Julie Christie, Allen Ginsberg, Eric Burdon, Michael Caine and many others attending one of the band's concerts.