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Beat Generation

Beat Generation The Beats (reputedly from "beatific") were a loosely organized literary set of the 1950s that celebrated spontaneity and condemned the Babbitry of middle-class life. They included poets Lawrence FERLINGHETTI and Allen GINSBERG and novelists William S. BURROUGHS and Jack KEROUAC. Notable works ...

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