RSMurthi's DigiDips & SoundToyz

Here's a story that convincingly argues that Allen Ginsberg's '60s countercultural masterpiece, 'Howl', is an epic poem "modelled on ancient prosodic blueprints, bardic and Biblical: the litany, the psalm, the dithyramb, the catalogue. It's a poem... [that] knowingly [harks] back to the incantatory template of Attic choral odes and Athenian tragedies. It's a poem inescapably co-sponsored by those two magisterial 19th-century rhapsodists, Blake and Whitman - and not merely in its impassioned appropriation of their soundtracks (great rolling cadences, cascading refrains, margin-busting line measures) but also their mindscapes (ecstatic hyperbole, cosmic visions, declamatory speechifying)...' More / Read Howl