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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
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