SOURCE: “Ginsberg and Corso: Image and Imagination,” in Thoth: Syracuse University Graduate Studies in English, Vol. 11, No. 2, Winter 1971, pp. 17–27.

In the following essay, Dullea compares Allen Ginsberg and Corso, positing that while Ginsberg is the better writer, Corso exudes a greater sense of imagination and humor.

The whole Beat movement must be understood as a revolutionary and a Romantic one, in the senses that it was, on the surface at least, completely anti-Establishment and completely pro-Self, reveling in anything that appeared to be against the traditions of society (even traditions so basic as eating, sleeping, and bathing) and in anything that gave vent to self-expression. These basic principles led the Beatniks naturally into the world of the arts, especially since a certain narcissicism and exhibitionism combined with the other elements of the movement's personality. The desire to display the expression of the Self led to essentially non-representational art...