History of the Beat movement 5 Articles

by Sebastian Ramshackle III

Although the Beat generation is usually dated as the decade from the late 1940s onwards and much of the more innovative work dates to that period, its influence on popular western culture is hard to overestimate, but easy ...read more

by Christal Hillner

Beat movement began after WWII. It was as a reaction by the younger generation to the new materialistic way of life and the close-mindedness they found to be taking over American society. They felt American had become all ...read more

by Marianne Porter

Allan Ginsburg, an important part of the beat movement wrote the poem Howl' in two parts. It gradually develops from the prophetic viewpoint of a beaten, angry generation, destroyed by madness,' into an emotionally powerfu...read more

by Gary Mcdonald

The "beats" lived during the late 1940's and through the 1950's. This generation included such names as Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsburg, Herbert Huncke, John Clellon Holmes, Carl Solomon, Gregory Corso, Ne...read more

by Johnette Loefgren

"The only people for me are the mad ones."Jack Kerouak followed the "mad" ones all across America.The ones who are "Mad to live,mad to talk,mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time." The Beat movem...read more