Beat Generation
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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BEAT GENERATION term applied to...Essentially anarchic, members of the beat generation rejected traditional...social and artistic forms. The beats sought immediate expression...Allen Ginsberg , Lawrence Ferlinghetti , and Gregory Corso), and...Burroughs . During the 1960s "beat" ideas and attitudes were...