ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author has suggested a number of themes and qualities which might bring various poets, willingly or otherwise, into a British Beat canon. In the conclusion he highlights a few aspects in particular. One is the frequency with which many of the poets refer to William Blake. By the time of Ginsberg's next visit, in 1965, the floodgates seemed to have been well and truly opened. From the perspective of some of the British poets, it seemed that there was a certain amount of bias involved in this harsh transatlantic judgement of their work. But Horovitz also acknowledges in "Afterwords" that the poetic "Underground in Britain" does not consist only of performance poets; the list he gives of "Children of Albion" who "employ cooler aesthetic approaches" includes Andrew Crozier, Roy Fisher, and Chris Torrance.
