Editing Beat Generation (section)

===Columbia University===
The origins of the Beat Generation can be traced to [[Columbia University]] and the meeting of Kerouac, Ginsberg, Carr, Hal Chase and others. Kerouac attended Columbia on a football scholarship.<ref>Beard, Rick, and Leslie Berlowitz. 1993. ''Greenwich Village: Culture and Counterculture''. New Brunswick, N.J. Published for the Museum of the City of New York by Rutgers University Press. 167.</ref> Though the beats are usually regarded as anti-academic,<ref>"In this essay "Beat" includes those American poets considered avant-garde or anti-academic from c. 1955 – 1965.", Lee Hudson, "Poetics in Performance: The Beat Generation" collected in ''Studies in interpretation, Volume 2'', ed Esther M. Doyle, Virginia Hastings Floyd, 1977, Rodopi, {{ISBN|90-6203-070-X}}, 9789062030705, p. 59.</ref><ref>"... resistance is bound to occur in bringing into the academy such anti-academic writers as the Beats.", Nancy McCampbell Grace, Ronna Johnson, ''Breaking the rule of cool: interviewing and reading women beat writers'', 2004, Univ. Press of Mississippi, {{ISBN|1-57806-654-9}}, {{ISBN|978-1-57806-654-4}}, p. x.</ref><ref>"The Black Mountain school originated at the sometime Black Mountain College of Asheville, North Carolina, in the 1950s and gave rise to an anti-academic academy that was the center of attraction for many of the disaffiliated writers of the period, including many who were known in other contexts as the Beats or the Beat generation and the San Francisco school." Steven R. Serafin, Alfred Bendixen, ''The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature'', 2005, Continuum International Publishing Group, {{ISBN|0-8264-1777-9}}, {{ISBN|978-0-8264-1777-0}}, p. 901.</ref> many of their ideas were formed in response to professors like [[Lionel Trilling]] and [[Mark Van Doren]]. Classmates Carr and Ginsberg discussed the need for a "New Vision" (a term borrowed from [[W. B. Yeats]]), to counteract what they perceived as their teachers' conservative, [[Formalism (literature)|formalistic]] literary ideals.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Genter |first=Robert |year=2004 |title="I'm Not His Father": Lionel Trilling, Allen Ginsberg, and the Contours of Literary Modernism |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25115190 |journal=College Literature |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=22–52|doi=10.1353/lit.2004.0019 |jstor=25115190 |s2cid=171033733 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Curious About Columbia? |url=http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_forum/question_of_the_week/archive_6.html |access-date=August 17, 2022 |website=c250.columbia.edu}}</ref>