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- CERTIFICATE
- DECLARATION
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- American Literature after World War II
- Equilibrium and Anxiety: The Tranquilized Fifties
- Return to Social Commitment
- Protest in the Literature and Art of the Fifties
- Allen Ginsbergs Public Poetry
- The Sixties and the Seventies
- The Rise of Counter-culture
- Allen Ginsbergs Poetry
- Ferlinghettis Poetry
- Corsos Poetry
- Notes
- I. Poetry as Saviour of the World Socio- Political Criticism in Ginsbergs Early Poetry.
- The Poet as Prophet:: Political Thoughts in Ginsbergs Small Poems.
- Notes
- II. Poetry for a State of Beatitude Ginsbergs Poems in Planet News (1968) and The Fall of America (1973)
- Kali and the Statue of Liberty Images of Destruction
- A Nation DeclaredMad: The Fall of America (1973)
- Wichita Vortex Sutra. (1966)
- The Reign of Hades:
- Ginsbergs Final Assessment: World Run by Birdbrain
- Assessment.
- Notes
- III. Poetry for the People -Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
- Recurrent Themes
- The Poem as Picture: Pictures of the Gone World (1955) and A Coney Island of the Mind (1958)
- The Social Relevance of Ferlinghettis Surrealism
- Poetry as Performance
- Use of Christian Imagery
- Ferlinghettis
- In a Don Quixote Country: Political Poems in Starting From San Francisco (1961), Open Eye. Open Heart. (1973), and Who Are We Now ? (1976)
- Ferlinghettis Views on Capitalism
- Assessment.
- Notes
- IV. Against Death and Destruction: The Poetry of Gregory Corso.
- Biographical Notes
- Celebrating Deaths Jubilee: Happy Birthday of Death (1960)
- Power Redefined
- A Spontaneous Requiem for America: Elegiac Feelings American (1970)
- On Behalf of Kerouac
- Misguided Growth:
- Getting Out of the Way: Corsos New Consciousness
- Corsos Nationalism: America Politica Historia in spontaneity
- Corsos Apocalyptic Vision of Social Decay: Spontaneous Requiem for an American Indian
- Surrealism in
- Assessment
- Notes
- CONCLUSION
- An Apology for Public Poetry
- Open Form
- Oral Tradition
- The Polemical Quality of the Poetry of Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti and Corso.
- Notes
- WORKS CITED