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American Literature in the 1960’s (The Sixties in America)

Poetry

Although it is inaccurate to describe coherent groups and movements in the 1960’s poetry scene in the United States, certain strains and voices did attempt to take the poem in new directions through explicitly experimental forms. The appearances of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems (1956) and Robert Lowell’s Life Studies and For the Union Dead (1959) marked watersheds in poetic...

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