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Beat Generation
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English
Alternative forms
en beat generation
Etymology
Often attributed to Herbert Huncke, from en beat exhausted exhausted, with Jack Kerouac later claiming it derived from en beatific instead.
Proper noun
Beat Generation 1
A group of countercultural American writers who came to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Their most important works are Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957), Allen Ginsberg's Howl (1956), and William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch (1959).