From the foregoing discussion, it is evident that Allen Ginsberg’s poem, Howl, is typical of literatures by non conformists of the beat generation.

Howl Lyrics. A poem by Allen Ginsberg—Beat writer, Howl author, visionary, imp, hedonist, Buddhist, troublemaker, friend of Dylan, and poetic inheritor of Walt Whitman.

Like the subject of his poem, Ginsberg does not conform to the set poetry guidelines.

This deviation is tactical since it helps pass on a message of deviance.

Conclusion. Howl Allen Ginsberg. The text of “Footnote to Howl” was used by Patti Smith as the lyrics of her 1997 track “Spell” from the album Gone Again. Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript, and Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence

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In the decade before his death, Allen Ginsberg assembled the original typescripts of his prophetic masterpiece "Howl," along with revisions and later drafts of each section of the poem; they are reproduced here in facsimile with facing-page transcriptions and notes. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.