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...time passes, Ginsberg will be remembered with T.S. Eliot ['09] for his ability to bring a religious sensibility to things that others considered sordid," Pinsky said...
...Ginsberg was openly homosexual before the beginning of the modern gay rights movement. He first achieved national fame when critics charged that one of his poems, "Howl," was obscene...
...controversy led to a trial that centered on Ginsberg's description of sodomy in the epic poem...
...Ginsberg and his publisher were eventually acquitted...
Henri Cole, the Briggs-Copeland lecturer on English and American Literature and Language, praised Ginsberg's candor...