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  • Chapter 1 - The Wild Outré Gang of Columbia Campus

  • from Part I - Get Hip, My Soul: How It All Got Started (1944–1948)
  • Steven Belletto, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania
  • Book:
    The Beats
    Published online:
    20 February 2020
    Print publication:
    12 March 2020, pp 3-14

  • Summary

    This chapter explains the origins of the Beat Generation. It recounts the killing of David Kammerer by Lucien Carr, and how this event was fictionalized by Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs in their novel, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks.

  • Chapter 13 - The Vietnam Effect

  • from Part IV - Beat Politics (1962–1969)
  • Steven Belletto, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania
  • Book:
    The Beats
    Published online:
    20 February 2020
    Print publication:
    12 March 2020, pp 360-372

  • Summary

    This chapter looks at the significance of the Vietnam War and its impact on Beat writing. It begins with an analysis of Ginsberg's poem “Wichita Vortex Sutra,” and then looks at the work of Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg, and Bob Dylan, among others.

  • Chapter 5 - The Rise of Beat Poetry

  • from Part II - Underground to Literary Celebrity (1948–1957)
  • Steven Belletto, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania
  • Book:
    The Beats
    Published online:
    20 February 2020
    Print publication:
    12 March 2020, pp 107-134

  • Summary

    This chapter charts the rise of Beat poetry by looking at the early work of Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. It then looks at Ginsberg's “Howl” in depth, and then explains the significance of the obscenity trial surrounding “Howl.”