Whitman and Ginsberg

Poetry always remains the heart of literature, a way §to express the ideas, the feelings of an age, of a §person. This book provides a look over the ideas, §and feelings of two enigmatic figures of American §literature, of Walt Whitman, and of Allen Ginsberg. §It analyses the facts that made these controversial §literary figures to the bards of the American §nation, and comments on Ginsberg's status as a §follower of Whitman's tradition. It points out the §features of their works that contributed to their §pictures if American society.§This book, therefore, has two main parts.The first §part provides an overview upon the features of §Whitman's poetry, and points out the facts that made §him a controversial literary phenomenon. It also §presents us his unuquness that will be appreciated §later on. The second part presents us Allen §Ginsberg's poetry, the poetry of a postmodern poet §who shocked his time with his voice, and who §continued and surpassed the radicalism of his §ancestor.§This book proves to be a useful reading for those §who are interseted in American poetry, for those who §are interested in the poetry of two poets who marked §their times. Poetry always remains the heart of literature, a way §to express the ideas, the feelings of an age, of a §person. This book provides a look over the ideas, §and feelings of two enigmatic figures of American §literature, of Walt Whitman, and of Allen Ginsberg. §It analyses the facts that made these controversial §literary figures to the bards of the American §nation, and comments on Ginsberg''s status as a §follower of Whitman''s tradition. It points out the §features of their works that contributed to their §pictures if American society.§This book, therefore, has two main parts.The first §part provides an overview upon the features of §Whitman''s poetry, and points out the facts that made §him a controversial literary phenomenon. It also §presents us his unuquness that will be appreciated §later on. The second part presents us Allen §Ginsberg''s poetry, the poetry of a postmodern poet §who shocked his time with his voice, and who §continued and surpassed the radicalism of his §ancestor.§This book proves to be a useful reading for those §who are interseted in American poetry, for those who §are interested in the poetry of two poets who marked §their times.