Paizs Magda

Whitman and Ginsberg: American Bards: the Romantic Ancestor and the Postmodern Follower Paizs Magda

Poetry always remains the heart of literature, a way to express the ideas, the feelings of an age, of a person. This book provides a look over the ideas, and feelings of two enigmatic figures of American literature, of Walt Whitman, and of Allen Ginsberg. It analyses the facts that made these controversial literary figures to the bards of the American nation, and comments on Ginsberg''s status as a follower of Whitman''s tradition. It points out the features of their works that contributed to their pictures if American society. This book, therefore, has two main parts. The first part provides an overview upon the features of Whitman''s poetry, and points out the facts that made him a controversial literary phenomenon. It also presents us his unuquness that will be appreciated later on. The second part presents us Allen Ginsberg''s poetry, the poetry of a postmodern poet who shocked his time with his voice, and who continued and surpassed the radicalism of his ancestor. This book proves to be a useful reading for those who are interseted in American poetry, for those who are interested in the poetry of two poets who marked their times.