Six Gallery poets
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The Six Gallery poets were a group of Beat and avant-garde writers whose landmark 1955 reading at San Francisco’s Six Gallery helped ignite the San Francisco Renaissance and transform postwar American poetry.
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| Six Gallery poets canonical | 1 |
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Target entity: Six Gallery poets Context triple: [San Francisco Renaissance, hasParticipant, Six Gallery poets]
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Dunbar Poets
Dunbar Poets is the boys’ basketball team of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Baltimore, Maryland, renowned as a national powerhouse that has produced numerous elite college and professional players.
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The Poets
The Poets is the English title of the 26th chapter (Surah Ash-Shu'ara) of the Qur'an, which focuses on the stories of earlier prophets and contrasts divine revelation with the misleading speech of poets and disbelievers.
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Fireside Poets
The Fireside Poets were a group of 19th-century New England writers known for their accessible, morally themed, and often patriotic poetry that was widely read in American households.
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Hogarth Living Poets
Hogarth Living Poets was a poetry series published by the Hogarth Press that showcased contemporary and often experimental poets in early 20th-century Britain.
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Lake Poets
The Lake Poets were a group of early 19th-century English Romantic writers, including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey, whose work was closely associated with the landscapes and rural life of England’s Lake District.
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Target entity: Six Gallery poets Target entity description: The Six Gallery poets were a group of Beat and avant-garde writers whose landmark 1955 reading at San Francisco’s Six Gallery helped ignite the San Francisco Renaissance and transform postwar American poetry.
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A.
Dunbar Poets
Dunbar Poets is the boys’ basketball team of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Baltimore, Maryland, renowned as a national powerhouse that has produced numerous elite college and professional players.
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B.
The Poets
The Poets is the English title of the 26th chapter (Surah Ash-Shu'ara) of the Qur'an, which focuses on the stories of earlier prophets and contrasts divine revelation with the misleading speech of poets and disbelievers.
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C.
Fireside Poets
The Fireside Poets were a group of 19th-century New England writers known for their accessible, morally themed, and often patriotic poetry that was widely read in American households.
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D.
Hogarth Living Poets
Hogarth Living Poets was a poetry series published by the Hogarth Press that showcased contemporary and often experimental poets in early 20th-century Britain.
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E.
Lake Poets
The Lake Poets were a group of early 19th-century English Romantic writers, including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey, whose work was closely associated with the landscapes and rural life of England’s Lake District.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Beat Generation group
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literary movement ⓘ poetry collective ⓘ |
| activityPlace | North Beach, San Francisco ⓘ |
| artisticStyle |
avant-garde
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experimental poetry ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Six Gallery ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| culturalContext | post–World War II United States ⓘ |
| dateOfActivity | 1955 ⓘ |
| genre | poetry ⓘ |
| hasCentralFigure |
Allen Ginsberg
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Kenneth Rexroth ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Allen Ginsberg
ⓘ
Gary Snyder ⓘ Kenneth Rexroth ⓘ Michael McClure ⓘ Philip Lamantia ⓘ Philip Whalen ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
bridge between West Coast and East Coast Beat scenes
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catalyst for wider recognition of Beat poetry ⓘ |
| influenced |
American poetry
ⓘ
counterculture of the 1960s ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Romanticism
ⓘ
Zen ⓘ
surface form:
Zen Buddhism
jazz ⓘ modernism ⓘ |
| knownFor |
helping ignite the San Francisco Renaissance
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landmark 1955 poetry reading at Six Gallery ⓘ transforming postwar American poetry ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | postwar American poetry ⓘ |
| location | San Francisco ⓘ |
| movement |
Beat Generation
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San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Six Gallery reading ⓘ |
| notableWorkPresented | Howl ⓘ |
| relatedEvent | San Francisco Renaissance poetry readings ⓘ |
| theme |
personal liberation
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social critique ⓘ spiritual quest ⓘ urban experience ⓘ |
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