Why was the beat movement started?

John Clellon Holmes March 12, was an American author, poet and professor, best known for his novel Go. He was often referred to as the "quiet Beat" and was one of Kerouac 's closest friends.

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Holmes also wrote what is considered the definitive jazz novel of the Beat Generation, The Horn. Holmes was more an observer and documenter of beat characters like Ginsberg, Cassady and Kerouac than one of them. He asked Ginsberg for "any and all information on your poetry and your visions" shortly before Ginsberg's admission into hospital saying that "I am interested in knowing also anything you may wish to tell The origin of the term beat being applied to a generation was conceived by Jack Kerouac who told Holmes, "You know, this is really a beat generation.

In the article, Holmes attributes the term to Kerouac , who had acquired the idea from Herbert Huncke. Holmes came to the conclusion that the values and ambitions of the Beat Generation were symbolic of something bigger, which was the inspiration for Go. Search Friends of Kerouac Reload page for updates. I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life , and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

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