Whitman and Ginsberg: American Bards

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.

Autorentext
Magda Paizs, BA:Studied English and Roumanian languages and literarures at Christian University Partium, Oradea. Teacher of English language at Grammar School 'Jókai Mór', Sub Cetate (Roumania).

Klappentext
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.