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  1. 1926- . US poet. His `Howl' 1956, the most
  2. influential poem of the beat generation,
  3. criticizes the materialism of contemporary US
  4. society. In the 1960s Ginsberg travelled
  5. widely in Asia, and was a key figure in
  6. introducing Eastern thought to students of
  7. that decade.
  8.