Allen Ginsberg
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- proper noun
- /ˈælən ˈɡɪnzˌbɜːrɡ/
- In the 1950s, Allen Ginsberg became a key figure in the Beat Generation with his groundbreaking poem 'Howl.'
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That I knew him as a person and not just the mediatized Allen Ginsberg.
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By 1989, Allen Ginsberg was as famous as a living poet could ever hope to be in this country.
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Looking over my shoulder at a young angel firmly in his tow, 1979 was the last time I heard Allen Ginsberg.
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Allen Ginsberg comes out this week in the United States (distributed by the University of Chicago Press).
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Allen Ginsberg, for example, can write poems anywhere—trains, planes, in any public place.
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I attended a reading by the renowned poet Allen Ginsberg at the university last year.
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Many regard Allen Ginsberg as one of the most influential American poets of the 20th century.
Synonyms
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An American poet of the 1950s who wrote the poem Howl
Surface Forms
Morphology
Allen + Ginsberg
This is a proper name referring to a specific person; knowing the constituent tokens 'Allen' and 'Ginsberg' does not allow a B1 learner to infer that the phrase denotes an American poet or Beat Generation figure. Proper nouns are referential and depend on world/cultural knowledge rather than compositional meaning, so the expression is not derivable from its parts.
Etymology
Allen Ginsberg became famous for a long, loud poem called 'Howl' and for public readings where he spoke with strong feeling. That vivid image made him a leader of the 'Beat Generation' and a voice for young people who wanted change.