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Charles Olson: The Scholar’s Art
Robert Von Hallberg
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Description for Charles Olson: The Scholar’s Art
Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 908.
Charles Olson is often described as one of the most influential American poets of the last quarter century; some would rather describe him as a cult figure, prophet of the Black Mountain poets and their descendants. Both judgments refer to an influence exerted as much through theories as through poems. Here is an examination of Olson's understanding of poetry that is cogent and a pleasure to read. It provides the framework needed for understanding Olson's work.
Mr. von Hallberg shows us the Olson of the 1950s, who tried to bring change through teaching, who wanted poetry to communicate knowledge, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674111301
SKU
V9780674111301
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About Robert Von Hallberg
Robert von Hallberg teaches English literature at the University of Chicago.
Reviews for Charles Olson: The Scholar’s Art
Brilliant… One puts it down with the conviction that it is also one of the most remarkable books on any post-war poet… Von Hallberg’s contention that Olson’s poems ‘cannot be adequately appreciated within terms of recent poetic theory’, and his subsequent exploration of alternative theory, powerfully remove our preconceptions of what a poem ought to be and so enable us ... Read more