generations (USA)；Beat Generation, Beat Poets

張錯先生上周末的新書發表盛會中，內容多精彩、合理。比較不合理處是張先生受到他的時代限制，認為Beat Generation應該是他們當年用的"敲打一代"，而非現在年輕人稱為的「垮掉的一代」(他說，是beat，不是beaten.....)。 這一誤會，現在很容易公斷，可參考Wikipedia 詞條Beat Generation的英文版、中文版、日文版 (中、日文版多參考英文版，只不過日文版採音譯)。 垮掉的一代 - 维基百科，自由的百科全书 垮掉的一代（Beat Generation） ，或稱疲憊的一代，是第二次世界大战之后出现于美國的一群松散结合在一起的年轻诗人和作家的集合体。这一名称最早是由作家杰克·克鲁亚克于1948年前后提出的。在英语中，形容词“beat”一词有“疲惫”或“潦倒”之意，而傑克·克魯亞克赋予其新的含义“欢腾”或“幸福”，和音乐中“节拍”的概念联结在一起。 ZH.WIKIPEDIA.ORG Everyman's Library 19小時 ·  Denise Levertov (1923–1997) was born in Ilford, London, England on this day in 1923. "The Gypsy’s Window" 1957 It seems a stage backed by imaginations of velvet, cotton, satin, loops and stripes- A lovely unconcern scattered the trivial plates, the rosaries and centered a narrownecked dark vase, unopened yellow and pink paper roses, a luxury of open red paper roses- Watching the trucks go by, from stiff chairs behind the window show, an old bandanna'd brutal dignified woman, a young beautiful woman her mouth a huge contemptuous rose- The courage of natural rhetoric tosses to dusty Hudson St. the chance of poetry, a chance poetry gives passion to the roses, the roses in the gypsy's window in a blue vase, look real, as unreal as real roses. * This rousing anthology features the work of more than twenty-five writers from the great twentieth-century countercultural literary movement. Writing with an audacious swagger and an iconoclastic zeal, and declaiming their verse with dramatic flourish in smoke-filled cafés, the Beats gave birth to a literature of previously unimaginable expressive range. The defining work of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac provides the foundation for this collection, which also features the improvisational verse of such Beat legends as Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, and Michael McClure and the work of such women writers as Diane DiPrima and Denise Levertov. LeRoi Jones’s plaintive “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note” and Bob Kaufman’s stirring “Abomunist Manifesto” appear here alongside statements on poetics and the alternately incendiary and earnest correspondence of Beat Generation writers. Visceral and powerful, infused with an unmediated spiritual and social awareness, this is a rich and varied tribute and, in the populist spirit of the Beats, a vital addition to the libraries of readers everywhere. READ an excerpt here: http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/27863/beat-poets/ アメリカ合衆国 世代 *=dates disputed, ^=Strauss and Howe このテンプレートを: 表示・ノート・編集・履歴
○○世代	期間
^Puritan Generation	1588 - 1617
Puritan Awakening	1621 - 1649
^Cavalier Generation ^Glorious Generation ^Enlightenment Generation ^Awakening Generation	1618 - 1648 1648 - 1673 1674 - 1700 1701 - 1723
First Great Awakening	1727 - 1746
^Liberty Generation ^Republican Generation ^Compromise Generation	1724 - 1741 1742 - 1766 1767 - 1791
Second Great Awakening	1790 - 1844
Transcendentalist Generation ^Transcendental Generation ^Gilded Generation ^Progressive Generation	1789 - 1819 1792 - 1821 1822 - 1842 1843 - 1859
Third Great Awakening	1886 - 1908
^Missionary Generation（英語） 失われた世代 Interbellum Generation（英語）（戦間期世代） G.I. Generation（英語） Greatest Generation（英語）	1860 - 1882 1883 - 1899 1900 - 1913 1900 - 1924 1911 - 1924
ジャズ・エイジ  Jazz Age	1918 - 1929
ビート・ジェネレーション Beat Generayion Silent Generation（英語） ベビーブーマー      Baby Boom Generation Jones（英語）	1914 - 1929 1925 - 1942 *1946 - 1964 1954 - 1965
Consciousness Revolution	1964 - 1984
ジェネレーションX    Generation X ^13th Generation MTV Generation（英語） Boomerang Generation（英語）	*1965 - 1980 1961 - 1981 1974 - 1985 1977 - 1986
Culture Wars（英語）	1980s - present
ジェネレーションY  Generation Y ^Millennial Generation (Millennials) ジェネレーションZ  Generation Z ^ニュー・サイレント・ジェネレーション New Silent Generation	*1981 - 2000 1981 - 2000 *2001 - 2010 ? 1990 - 2009 ?