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Charles Olson | The Poetry Foundation • poetryfoundation.org

Charles Olson was an innovative poet and essayist whose work influenced numerous other writers during the 1950s and 1960s. In his influential essay on projective (or open) verse, Olson asserts that "a poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader.

Charles Olson | Poetry, Projective Verse, Books, Maximus, & Facts ... • britannica.com

Charles Olson (born December 27, 1910, Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.—died January 10, 1970, New York, New York) was an American poet and literary theorist, widely credited with first using the term postmodern in discussing American poetry and known for his association with the Black Mountain poets.He also significantly influenced the generation of American poets who emerged after World War II.

Projective Verse | The Poetry Foundation • poetryfoundation.org

Charles Olson's influential manifesto, "Projective Verse," was first published as a pamphlet, and then was quoted extensively in William Carlos Williams' Autobiography (1951). The essay introduces his ideas of "composition by field" through projective or open verse, which is a continuation of the ideas of poets Ezra Pound, who asked poets to "compose in the sequence of the ...

Analysis of Charles Olson's Poems - Literary Theory and Criticism • literariness.org

Charles Olson's (27 December 1910 - 10 January 1970) poetry is political in a profound, not superficial, sense; it does not spend time naming "current events," but rather devotes itself to defining "the dodges of discourse" that have enabled humanity (especially in the West) to withdraw from reality into increasingly abstract fictions of life.

About Charles Olson - Academy of American Poets • poets.org

On December 27, 1910, Charles Olson, the son of Karl Joseph Olson, a postman, and Mary Hines, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He received his BA and MA from Wesleyan University. Olson taught English for two years at Clark University then entered Harvard University in 1936, where he completed coursework for a PhD in American civilization.

Charles Olson - Gloucester Lyceum & Sawyer Free Library • sawyerfreelibrary.org

Charles Olson (27 December 1910 - 10 January 1970) was born to Karl Joseph and Mary Hines Olson in Worcester, MA, where Charles' father worked as a mailman. During his childhood years, the Olson family summered in Gloucester, MA - a place which later became the focus of his writing. In high school, Olson was a champion orator, winning a ...

PDF The Age of Olson - University at Buffalo Libraries • buffalo.edu

Front: Jonathan Williams's calligraphy design for The Maximus Poems, photograph of Charles Olson by Werner Neumeister. Reproduced with the permission of both estates. Back: Charles Olson letter to Jack Clarke, next to a photograph of Olson's house at 28 Fort Square, Gloucester, Massachusetts. From the Jack Clarke and George Butterick ...

About Charles Olson | UConn Library • uconn.edu

Charles Olson has come to be recognized in the few years since his death as a major shaper of a postmodern American poetry, the chief successor to Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. He was a leading voice of the so-called Black Mountain Poets (which included Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Edward Dorn, and Joel Oppenheimer among others ...

Charles Olson Poems (Reader Favorites) - Poem Analysis • poemanalysis.com

Charles Olson was a poet, an essayist, and an academic. He is noted for his experimental verse, his association with the Black Mountain school, and his critical and theoretical output. Olson first made a name for himself with Call Me Ismahel (1947), a study of Moby Dick, but the work he is best known for is The Maximus Poems, a postmodern epic ...