{"id":35298,"date":"2019-05-13T16:44:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T20:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=35298"},"modified":"2019-05-16T07:34:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T11:34:32","slug":"from-emerson-to-whitman-to-ferlinghetti-to-ginsberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2019\/05\/from-emerson-to-whitman-to-ferlinghetti-to-ginsberg.html","title":{"rendered":"From Emerson to Whitman to Ferlinghetti to Ginsberg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This teaser appeared today at Arts & Letters Daily in its “New Books”<\/a> column: “‘I greet you at the beginning of a great career,’ Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote Allen Ginsberg. <\/strong><\/em>… Thus began the effort to publish <\/strong>Howl<\/strong><\/em>, a landmark case of attempted censorship…”<\/strong> The teaser linked to an article that appeared recently in Spiked<\/a> apropos the publication in the U.K. of The People v. Ferlinghetti: The Fight to Publish Allen Ginsberg’s Howl<\/a><\/em>, which, it so happens, is closely related to I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career: The Selected Correspondence of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg, 1955-1997<\/a><\/em>, published four years ago here in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why do I mention all of this? Well, for some reason the Spiked article never mentions the fact that Ferlinghetti appropriated that fabled greeting of Emerson\u2019s to Whitman. Nor, as far as I can tell, was the appropriation mentioned in any of the reviews and articles that appeared when I Greet You … <\/em>was published in the U.S., even though it is pointed out by the editor. You’d think a review would have noted the purposeful literary reference, especially given Ginsberg’s reverence for Whitman\u2014and if someone did, please let me know. In the meantime, have a look:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Emerson to Whitman about ‘Leaves of Grass’<\/em> [1855]<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

. . . One hundred years later <\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Ferlinghetti to Ginsberg about ‘Howl’ <\/em> [1955]<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Postscript:<\/strong> May 14\u2014Listen to the telegram as sent in Morse Code<\/a> (courtesy Gary Lee-Nova)<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Click to listen. We know it’s redundant, but the staff likes this presentation.<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This teaser appeared today at Arts & Letters Daily in its “New Books” column: “‘I greet you at the beginning of a great career,’ Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote Allen Ginsberg. … Thus began the effort to publish Howl, a landmark case of attempted censorship…” The teaser linked to an article that appeared recently in Spiked apropos the publication in the U.K. of The People v. Ferlinghetti: The Fight to Publish Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, which, it so happens, is closely related to I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career: The Selected Correspondence of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg, 1955-1997, published four years ago here in the U.S. Why do I mention all of this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"category-literature","9":"category-main","10":"category-news","11":"category-political-culture","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/EMERSON-TO-WHITMAN-IN-1855-365-brd-.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-9bk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35298"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35378,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35298\/revisions\/35378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}