Lawrence Ferlinghetti
(1919–)
(Born Lawrence Ferling Monsanto) American poet, novelist, and playwright.
To fully appreciate the impact of Ferlinghetti on the American literary scene in gener...
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Biography EssayIn discarding accepted notions of conformity in art as well as life, the Beats looked around for brothers of rebellion. Breaking the dam of cultural convention they stood on new and fer...
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The Beat movement, characterized by its chief commentator Kenneth Rexroth as "total rejection of ... official high-brow culture," had already begun to take shape when Lawrence Ferlinghetti opened City...
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In discarding accepted notions of conformity in art as well as life, the Beats looked around for brothers of rebellion. Breaking the dam of cultural convention they stood on new and fertile ground and...
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Critical Essay by Jascha Kessler
Ferlinghetti has always been addicted to spiritual posturings, to invoking the names of the gods, saints and bards in phrases such as Time magazine uses for captions,...
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Critical Essay by Crale D. Hopkins
[Lawrence Ferlinghetti deserves] disentanglement from the old Beat-poet characterization. His poetry cannot be dismissed either as protest polemic or as incoherentl...
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Critical Essay by C. R. Metzger
Ferlinghetti's "Autobiography" [one of seven "oral messages" in A Coney Island of the Mind] is a highly and mockingly-learned riddle...
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Critical Essay by Michael Skau
In his prose volume, Her, Lawrence Ferlinghetti explores the dynamics of artistic consciousness and control. He posits as his protagonist Andy Raffine, who is seeking h...
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Critical Essay by Joel Oppenheimer
["Endless Life" is assembled from Lawrence Ferlinghetti's] own choice of his work from the last 25 years. We can see the range of these poems s...
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Critical Essay by John Trimbur
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, according to his FBI file, is a "Beatnik Rabble Rouser." Now I never thought that the Freedom of Information Act would advance lite...
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Critical Essay by Lee Bartlett
Ferlinghetti has published nine collections of poems, from which Endless Life draws its two-hundred pages. Ferlinghetti obviously thinks of himself as a political poet,...
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Critical Essay by Larry Smith
Rarely has any poet's work received such wide popular acceptance and such limited critical appreciation as Lawrence Ferlinghetti's writing. While the publi...
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In the following essay, Corrington compares the structure of Ferlinghetti's poems to the style of several modern painters.
With the gradual ebb of publicity concerning "The Beat Gener...
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After an analysis of Ferlinghetti's style and subject matter, Butler suggests that Ferlinghetti has the talent and vision to rise above the restrictive label of "beat poet" and be...
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In the following review, Raksin provides a plot summary and critique of the novel Love in the Days of Rage.
The author is perhaps best known as the poet laureate of Beat counterculture—co-fo...
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Burnson provides a plot summary and favorable review of Love in the Days of Rage.
When the streets of Paris erupted with student demonstrations twenty years ago, San Francisco poet / publisher Lawr...
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In the following review, Leddy criticizes the poetry collection Wild Dreams of a New Beginning for being derivative and unimaginative.
Wild Dreams of a New Beginning reprints the volumes Who Are We...
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In the following essay, Stephenson describes the visual imagery recurring in several of Ferlinghetti's poems and plays, and in the novel, Her. He suggests that Ferlinghetti believes man to be f...
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In the following interview, Curtis and Ferlinghetti discuss a wide range of topics, including the poets Dylan Thomas and Allen Ginsberg, and the status of the anti-war movement.
[Curtis:] Lawrence,...
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Smith reviews the revised edition of Pictures of the Gone World, and discusses the impact of Ferlinghetti's City Lights Bookstore and New Directions Paperbacks.
One of the classics of contem...
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Actor Roscoe Lee Browne, whose rich voice and dignified bearing brought him an Emmy Award and a Tony nomination, has died. He was 81.Browne died early Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after...
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Actor Roscoe Lee Browne, whose rich voice and dignified bearing brought him an Emmy Award and a Tony nomination, has died. He was 81.Browne died early Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after...
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A new tourism map of Monterey County can help you plan a literary pilgrimage to places associated with John Steinbeck, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and many other wri...
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Actor Roscoe Lee Browne, whose rich voice and dignified bearing brought him an Emmy Award and a Tony nomination, has died. He was 81.Browne died early Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after...
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Beat writer Jack Kerouac usually set out without a map, plan or even a purpose. So tracking exactly where the author stopped off in his travels wouldn't be encouraged by the man who disliked the ti...
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When is a bookstore worth a tourist's time?When it's more than just a place to buy books.A destination bookstore can make you feel like you're part of the community, whether you're grooving on the ...
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*NEW YORKObvious choice? Maybe. Wanna make something of it? The truth is, leaving this brash five-borough beast of a town off any list of superlative cities would be unthinkable. It’s impossi...
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence (Monsanto) Ferlinghetti
Critical Essay by Jascha Kessler
Actor Roscoe Lee Browne dies in LA at 81
