Allen Ginsberg initially thought The Beatles were naive when he first met them. However, he soon learned that they were innovators and artists like him. The Beatles | Central Press/Getty Images ...

ALLEN GINSBERG: (Reading) I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked, dragging themselves through the Negro streets at dawn, looking for an angry fix.

Poet and writer Allen Ginsberg greeted George Harrison and his first wife, Pattie Boyd, in the nude during his 39th birthday party. Ginsberg later operated in the same spiritual circles as the Beatle.

Allen Ginsberg, the late poet who helped form the core of the Beat Generation, is best known for chronicling the world through his gritty and confessional words.But a new exhibit at the Los ...

Poets Lawrence Ferlinghetti, left, and Allen Ginsberg during the dedication of the Jack Kerouac Commemorative, a work of public art in Lowell, Mass. historic district , June 25, 1988.

Cassady made his way into the works of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, Ken Kesey and more. Even after death, Ginsberg eulogized him in a number of poems, including “On Neal ...

Of Ginsberg, he says: "There wouldn't have been any Beat generation recognized as such if it hadn't been for Allen. He created it out of whole cloth, really. Without Allen, ...

The Allen Ginsberg Trust, used with permission of the Wylie Agency LLC. The two men pose for the camera at right angles to each other. They’re in a room in Tangier in 1961.