Members of the generation in the US following WWII, especially writers, who tried to separate themselves from society and looked for various kinds of social freedom. The writers of the Beat Generation expressed their revolt through literary works of loose structure and slang diction. To prevailing established values, they opposed an anti-intellectual freedom, often associated with religious ecstasy, visionary states, or the effect of drugs. The ideology of Beat writers included Orientalism, experimentation,and reliance on inspiration from modern jazz and from earlier visionaries. Among the leading members of the Beat writers were the poet Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the novelists Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.