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Biography

Name: Charles Olson
Birth Date: December 27, 1910
Death Date: January 10, 1970
Place of Birth: Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Death: New York, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: poet

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Biography of Charles Olson
1,067 words, approx. 4 pages
Charles Olson (1910-1970) defined and practiced an open, kinetic poetry which influenced many of the second generation of modern poets. Charles Olson, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1910, was an energetic giant of a man. In his youth his energy...
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Biography of Charles (John) Olson
8,773 words, approx. 29 pages
Charles Olson shaped postmodern American writing through his poetry and his essays. As the successor to Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the inheritor of Herman Melville's prophetic voice, he was the leading voice of the Black Mountain...
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Biography of Charles (John) Olson
8,274 words, approx. 28 pages
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...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Charles Olson Information
853 words, approx. 3 pages
Charles Olson (27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970 ,(aged 59)) was an important 2nd 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...


News and Journals
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Art in America
Charles Olson at Denise Bibro.(Brief Article)
05/01/2000: 385 words, approx. 1 pages
Charles Olson's new, mid-to-large-scale acrylics on canvas and paper offer pleasures and mysteries for eye and imagination. A good six of them were titled Ex Voto and involved standing "altars," more than a little phallic, that mixed cruciform shapes with Close Encounters of the...
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The Mississippi Quarterly
Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff: A Modern Correspondence.(Review) (book review)
03/22/2000: 3,519 words, approx. 12 pages
Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff: A Modern Correspondence, edited by Ralph Maud and Sharon Thesen. Hanover, New Hampshire: Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England, 1999. xviii, 552 pp. $60.00 cloth. $24.95 paper. DURING THE SLIGHTLY LESS THAN THREE YEARS (November 1947-September 1950)...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Robert von Hallberg
10,388 words, approx. 35 pages
In the following essay, von Hallberg discusses the defining influence of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams on Olson's poetry.
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Critical Essay by George F. Butterick
9,079 words, approx. 30 pages
In the following essay, Butterick examines how Olson attempted to break with traditional western rationalism.
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Critical Essay by Thomas F. Merrill
7,633 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following excerpt, Merrill examines the principles underlying Olson's unorthodox use of language.
 


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