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Date	1950 - 1970
Related Artists	Charles Olson • Robert Creeley • Denise Levertov • Robert Duncan

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Surrealism Beat movement Expressionism Symbolism Theatre of the Absurd Southern gothic Aestheticism fin de siècle Metaphysical poet Jacobean age