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greatest literary biography
of the century." Seven uni-
versities in the United
States and abroad have con-
ferred honorary degrees
upon him. He looks like a
genial Victorian statesman
or man of letters, though
when he smiles he has a
kindly Pickwickian air.
Oscar Wilde has fasci-
nated him since adoles-
cence. He recalls that
Wilde's work gave him, at
the age of fourteen, a notion
of polished prose. In Yeats:
The Man and the Masks he
wrote that "Because Wilde
was compelled by his sexual
abnormality to lead a dou-
ble life, he felt the split
acutely and founded much
of his art upon the tension
between the pose and the
real self, the importance of
being and not being ear-
nest."

Allen Ginsberg
In The Limelight

Robert Browning, alluding
to a character in his writings
with poetic inclinations, said
she "reads verse, and thinks
she understands."
Perhaps this is the rule
among judges of poets and
poetry. In the publishers'
ranks, there continues a devo-
tion that gives a platform to
the poetic in our midst.
An example of it is current in
the acclaim for Allen Ginsberg.
When a single publisher issues
two volumes in a single month
devoted to a single poet, that's
something to be proud of.
That's the case with Harper &
Row. It has just issued the two
volumes referred to:
White Shroud: Poems 1980
to 1985 and Howl, original
draft facsimiles, transcripts
and variant versions, fully an-
notated by the author, with
contemporaneous corre-
spondence, accounts of first
/ public readings, legal skir-
mishes, other items plus
bibiliography.
The first title is self-
explanatory. The second,
edited by Barry Miles, takes
the reader into confidence
about a much-explored and ex-
tensively - sensationalized
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poet.
Therefore, if ever there was
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cause for jealousy among the
literati, this is it: Ginsberg and
his publishers cause it.

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Morris Lieberman rose to
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the highest level and therefore
had much to impart to his asso-
ciates. Perhaps it can be said
that he was born into Zionism,
in a family of deep devotion.
Therefore, he soon assumed
leadership and for most of his

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