I’m not a fan of Snyder either.
The second mimics the Old Testament.
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There is no chance that Ginsberg had even the slightest understanding of the OT. Nor does his work (or his life for that matter)reflect any understanding at all of the OT.
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That said I recognize the pole star (the guiding light) in your discussion would naturally come out of most undergraduate literary programs at American universities.
>>There is no chance that Ginsberg had even the slightest understanding of the OT. Nor does his work (or his life for that matter)reflect any understanding at all of the OT.
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>>That said I recognize the pole star (the guiding light) in your discussion would naturally come out of most undergraduate literary programs at American universities.
Are you kidding? He’s Jewish! His father was literary as well, which simply makes your argument seem naive. Yeah, he may have been a pot smoking hippie through most of the 60s and a guy that really pissed off Kerouac, but “Howl” is still pretty damn good.
Furthermore, the research and paper I did on him was at a master’s level program at a BAPTIST university.