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The Beat Poets

The Beat Poets

Released Monday, 27th April 2020
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The Beat Poets

The Beat Poets

The Beat Poets

The Beat Poets

Monday, 27th April 2020
 1 person rated this episode
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Frank Skinner celebrates the Beat Poets – a generation of poets in the 1940s and 50s who rebelled against American conventions, championed ‘spontaneous writing’, and won over Frank in a school assembly.Poems referenced include:Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Sometime During EternityGregory Corso - Man About to Enter SeaAllen Ginsberg - Sunflower SutraWilliam Wordsworth - I Wandered Lonely As A CloudLawrence Ferlinghetti – HePlus Frank argues that Jack Kerouac’s On the Road is a poem too.

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