Editing Beat Generation (section)

===Romanticism===
[[Gregory Corso]] considered English Romantic poet [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] a hero, and he was buried at the foot of Shelley's grave in the [[Protestant Cemetery, Rome]]. Ginsberg mentions Shelley's poem ''[[Adonaïs|Adonais]]'' at the beginning of his poem ''[[Kaddish (poem)|Kaddish]],'' and cites it as a major influence on the composition of one of his most important poems. [[Michael McClure]] compared Ginsberg's ''[[Howl (poem)|Howl]]'' to Shelley's breakthrough poem ''[[Queen Mab (poem)|Queen Mab]].''<ref>McClure, Michael. ''Scratching the Beat Surface''.</ref>

Ginsberg's main Romantic influence was [[William Blake]],<ref>"Throughout these interviews [in ''Spontaneous Mind''] Ginsberg returns to his high praise of William Blake and Walt Whitman. Ginsberg obviously loves Blake the visionary and Whitman the democratic sensualist, and indeed Ginsberg's literary personality can be construed as a union of these forces." Edmund White, ''Arts and letters'' (2004), p. 104, {{ISBN|1-57344-195-3}}, {{ISBN|978-1-57344-195-7}}.</ref> and studied him throughout his life. Blake was the subject of Ginsberg's self-defining auditory hallucination and revelation in 1948.<ref>"Ginsberg's intense relationship with Blake can be traced to a seemingly mystical experience he had during the summer of 1948." ''ibid'', p. 104.</ref> Romantic poet [[John Keats]] was also cited as an influence.{{Citation needed|date= February 2018}}