Beat Down to Your Soul: What Was the Beat Generation?

By: Ann Charters

In this wide-ranging anthology, Beat scholar Ann Charters brings together more than seventy-five essays, reviews, memoirs, poems, and sketches that evoke the credos and the controversies surrounding... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141001518
• ISBN13: 9780141001517
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 744 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.4" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Anthology

I've always admired Charters work concerning the Beats . It's scholarly and entertaining at the same time. Back in the sixties, if you asked an English professor why Beats weren't covered in the textbook ,you'd probably get a sideways look of disdain. If I were teaching a course on American Lit today, this would be mandatory. Some of the source material has been more or less unobtainable which makes this a true goldmine. It always seems like the Beat movement as a literary topic has been pretty much exhausted, but Ms. Charters has proven that not to be true.