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Charles Olson

27 December 1910 - 10 January 1970

Charles Olson was a second generation American modernist poet who was a crucial link between earlier figures like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, a rubric which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance. Consequently, many postmodern groups, such as the poets of the Language School, include Olson as a primary and precedent figure. Across the Atlantic, these various poetic movements have exerted a deep and ongoing influence on an important array of alternative and experimental writers, including Roy Fisher, Geoffrey Hill, JH Prynne and Edwin Morgan, behind whose works lurks Olson's ghost of language-driven inventiveness. (Source.)

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  • Cover of: Call Me Ishmael

    First published in 1947 17 editions in 2 languages — 3 previewable Cover of edition callmeishmael00olso Cover of edition callmeishmael0000olso_m5j0
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  • Cover of: Charles Olson & Robert Creeley: the complete correspondence

    First published in 1980 16 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The Maximus poems

    First published in 1960 9 editions in 2 languages — 2 previewable Cover of edition maximuspoems0000olso_f8g9
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  • Cover of: The Complete Correspondence of Charles Olson & Robert Creeley: Volume 2

    First published in 1980 5 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Spearmint & rosemary

    First published in 1975 5 editions in 1 language
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    First published in 1947 5 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Letters for Origin, 1950-1956

    First published in 1969 4 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Mayan letters

    First published in 1954 4 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Selected writings.

    First published in 1966 4 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Charles Olson & Ezra Pound: an encounter at St. Elizabeths

    First published in 1975 3 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Charles Olson reading at Berkeley

    First published in 1966 3 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: D.H. Lawrence, & the high temptation of the mind

    First published in 1980 3 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The distances: poems.

    First published in 1960 3 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: In cold hell, in thicket

    First published in 1953 3 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The Post Office: a memoir of his father

    First published in 1975 3 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Selected writings of Charles Olson.

    First published in 1966 3 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Archaeologist of morning.

    First published in 1970 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The collected poems of Charles Olson: excluding the Maximus poems

    First published in 1987 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Letters for Origin

    First published in 1970 2 editions — 1 previewable
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Subjects
American Poets, Correspondence, Poetry, Olson, charles, 1910-1970, American poetry, Creeley, robert, 1926-2005, Criticism and interpretation, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Biography, Friends and associates, Origin, Poets, correspondence, American Authors, American letters, American literature, Antiquities, Briefsammlung, Description and travel, Drama, Essays, History, History and criticism, Interviews, Love-letters, Mayas
Places
United States, English-speaking countries, Gloucester, Gloucester (Mass.), Massachusetts, Mayas, Moon, West (U.S.), Yucatan Peninsula, Yucatán Peninsula
People
Charles Olson (1910-1970), Herman Melville (1819-1891), Ezra Pound (1885-1972), Charles Olson, Cid Corman, D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930), Frances M. Boldereff (1905-), Robert Creeley (1926-2005), Ann Charters, Apollonius of Tyana, Charles Olson (1882-1935), Charles, 1910-1970 Olson, Edward Dahlberg (1900-1977), Frances M. Boldereff, Herman Melville, James Den Boer (1937-), Jan de Vries (1890-1964), John Clarke (1933), Red Cloud (1822-1909), Robert Creeley (1926-), William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Time
20th century, Civil War, 1861-1865

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September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
February 16, 2010 Edited by 208.70.31.206 Updated information from Wikipedia
September 12, 2008 Edited by RenameBot fix author name
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import