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Allen Ginsberg

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American poet and writer

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Allen Ginsberg
Literature
#259
World Rank
#791
Historical Rank
#127
USA Rank
Writing
#92
World Rank
#172
Historical Rank
#55
USA Rank
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According to Wikipedia, Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression, and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, hostility to bureaucracy, and openness to Eastern religions.

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