Naked Angels: The Lives and Literature of the Beat Generation

A critical study of the lives and writings of Burroughs, Kerouac, and Ginsberg, examining the origins and development of their movement and the significance of their experiential and literary experimentation

Biographies & Memoirs

Tytell, John

Arts & Literature

McGraw=Hill

Naked Angels: The Lives & Literature of the Beat Generation

Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs―their emergence in the late 1950s as the leading figures of the Beat movement marked one of the most spectacular developments in post-World War II American literature. John Tytell's classic study examines their attempt to redefine a complacent society's notion of sanity and normalcy and to reinvent their own lives through jazz, drugs, and law-breaking, acts that ultimately led to new forms of expression. A fascinating blend of literary and social criticism, history, and biography, Naked Angels is an indispensable introduction to the lives and work of these seminal figures, and an unsurpassed look at the powerful influence they had on the 1960s and beyond.

Naked angels: The lives & literature of the Beat generation

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

D.H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath-these five great writers lived lives of passionate intensity, and John Tytell shows how their own love affairs influences their writing. He also describes how they became models for what we perceive artists to be: romantics whose intense and troubled lives carried them beyond the norm.

Passionate Lives: D. H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath...in Love

Community & Culture

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Examines how the author's life reflected the history of New York City and the publications that shaped him, describing the eye problem that confined him to a dark room at a young age, his family's flight from Antwerp after the Nazi invasion, and his personal relationship with key works of literature. 15,000 first printing.

Reading New York

KNOPF

This biography of Ezra Pound explores the mind and vision of the complex and controversial American poet

Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano

History

DOUBLEDAY

Unlike other biographical portraits of Ezra Pound, John Tytell’s brilliant and ambitious work offers an interpretive study that boldly confronts the emotional truths and psychological drama that formed this complex and controversial American poet. Neither an apology nor a condemnation, it presents instead a meticulous exploration into the mind and vision of a man who galvanized a generation and challenged an entire literary—and world—establishment. Although he enjoyed little fame in his lifetime, Pound’s notoriety and influence were enormous, as he arrogantly slashed away at convention and almost single-handedly brought about the twentieth-century revolution in poetry known as modernism. Ultimately, outrage and scandal turned his art to madness, and Pound’s last years saw him fall tragically silent.

Anchor Press/Doubleday

The post ware emergence of the beat movement is brilliantly examined in this book.

Naked Angels (R)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

GROVE PRESS

"The narrative of the founding and embattled maintenance of The Living Theatre is a ripping American epic...an important book that will serve as a reference for years to come" (American Theatre Magazine) Throughout the 1950s and 1960s the Living Theatre was the most radical group in American theatrical history. Their flamboyant and counter-cultural experiments attracted international attention, their performances were leftist and sexually explicit. They suffered repeated censorship, arrests and imprisonments. In every way they were wildly notorious and theatrical. Tytell's history of the company is a detailed biography of its two charismatic founders and lead performers, Julian Beck and Judith Malina, and a searching look at the American avant-garde at mid-century. His story of the Living Theatre is also filled with a glittering and exotic cast of characters including Tennessee Williams, Frank O'Hara, Anais Nin, James Agee, Allen Ginsberg and the Beats, Jackson Pollock and the Abstract Expressionists, Peggy Guggenheim, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Francis Ford Coppola and Robert and Ira Cohen." A warm and passionate history of one of the great radical theatres of our time and a wonderful chronicle of the American cultural and social scene of the last fifty years. I recommend it to anyone who loves theatre." (Andre Gregory) "From the earliest years of its formation to the powerful and lasting impact on the American culture, John Tytell accurately recalls the people and the events that gave life and liberty to the Living Theatre. I'm indebted to Tytell for this honest and moving portrait of Julian Beck and Judith Malina." (Martin Sheen)

The Living Theatre : Art, Exile and Outrage

Humor & Entertainment

Methuen Drama

This critical biography of the modern poet and writer Ezra Pound is based both on published personal accounts and interviews with people who knew Pound and many unpublished letters, psychiatric reports and FBI files. Ezra Pound is considered to be a controversial writer with some extreme views and a poet with enormous ambition, self-confidence and pride and a prophetic sense of message and mission. He detested the prospect of his own biography and this is intended to be a balanced and interpretive study which illuminates the tragic circumstances surrounding Pound's poems. It explores the myths behind the man and the different attitudes towards him of those who knew him. By the same author: "Naked Angels - Lives and Literature of the Beat Generation" and "The American Experience - A Radical Reader".

Ezra Pound the Solitary Volcano

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

A history of the experimental theater group that believed there could be no separation between life and art reveals that it was instrumental in creating the New York avant-garde of the 1950s and counterculture of the 1960s.

The Living Theatre: Art, Exile, and Outrage

Grove Pr

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Naked Angels: The Lives and Literature of the Beat Generation

Naked angels: The lives & literature of the Beat generation

Passionate Lives: D. H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath...in Love

Reading New York

Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano

Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano

Naked Angels (R)

The Living Theatre : Art, Exile and Outrage

Ezra Pound the Solitary Volcano

The Living Theatre: Art, Exile, and Outrage