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Charles Olson Reader

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Description for Charles Olson Reader Paperback. Charles Olson's influence on the development of British and American poetry through his writing and teaching is immense. His work encompasses myth, history, scholarship and politics. This book includes extracts from a range of Olson's poetry and prose, including letters, interviews and the full text of the key essay 'Projective Verse'. Editor(s): Maud, Ralph. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations, ports.,. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 215 x 19. Weight in Grams: 292. 280 pages, Illustrations, ports.,. Editor(s): Maud, Ralph. Charles Olson's influence on the development of British and American poetry through his writing and teaching is immense. His work encompasses myth, history, scholarship and politics. This book includes extracts from a range of Olson's poetry and prose, including letters, interviews and the full text of the key essay 'Projective Verse'. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 187 x 215 x 19. Weight: 292.
Charles Olson (1910-70) believed that poetry exists in an 'open field' through which the poet transmits energy to the receptive reader. Olson's influence on the development of British and American poetry through his writing and teaching is immense. His work encompasses myth, history, scholarship and politics, grand theories and delight in the particular variousness of life, all marked by the curiosity and openness to experience that he asked of his readers. Olson grew up and returned to live in the seafaring town of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and it was from the life and language of its citizens that his poetry drew ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857547849
SKU
V9781857547849
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About Charles Olson
CHARLES OLSON was born in 1910 in Worcester, Massachusetts and grew up in Gloucester, a seaport north of Boston. He studied at Harvard, and taught there for a time, before working for the Roosevelt government during the war. In 1948 he took a post at Black Mountain College, North Carolina, where as rector from 1951 to 1956 he was instrumental ... Read more

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