Beat Writers

Beat writers is a group of poets and novelists, writing in second half of 1950s and early 1960s.

This is the group against prevailing cultural, moral and social values. It has antiestablishment, antipolitical, anti-intellectual views.

Beat writers used to perform in coffeehouses and other public places in the accompaniment of drum or jazz music.

The members of the group are poets like Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the novelists like William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac.

Examples are Ginsberg's Howl (1956) and Jack Kerouac's On The Road (1958).

Keypoints:

1. Group of poets and novelists.

2. Antiestablishment, Antipolitical, Anti-intellectual group

3. Performance in coffeehouses and other public houses.

4. Poets- Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

5. Novelists- William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac

6. Ginsberg's Howl (1956) and Jack Kerouac's On The Road (1958).