(1910-12-27)27 December 1910 Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died
10 January 1970(1970-01-10) (aged 59) New York City, U.S.
Resting place
Gloucester, Massachusetts
Education
Wesleyan University B.A., 1932; M.A., 1933 Harvard University Graduate work in American Studies, 1936-1939
Genre
Poetry
Literary movement
Postmodernism
Notable works
The Distances, The Maximus Poems
Spouse
Constance (Connie) Wilcock Elizabeth (Betty) Kaiser
Children
2
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Charles Olson (27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970) was a second generation modernist American poet[1] who was a link between earlier modernist figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the third generation modernist New American poets. The latter includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, and some of the artists and poets associated with the Beat generation and the San Francisco Renaissance.[1]
Today, Olson remains a central figure of the Black Mountain Poetry school and is generally considered a key figure in moving American poetry from modernism to postmodernism.[2] In these endeavors, Olson described himself not so much as a poet or a historian but as "an archeologist of morning."[3][n 1]
^ ab"Symposium honors poet Charles Olson - UB Reporter". www.buffalo.edu.
^Morrow, Bradford (April 14, 1991). "Father of the Postmodernist Poets". Washington Post.
^East, Elyssa (August 14, 2013). "Hunting among Stones". Poetry Foundation.
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CharlesOlson (27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970) was a second generation modernist American poet who was a link between earlier modernist figures such...
families of Dale Olson were both Lutheran. Dale Olson’s adoptive paternal grandfather, CharlesOlson, was born in Sweden. Dale Olson’s adoptive maternal...
traditionally described as the "Black Mountain Poets" centered around CharlesOlson, who became a teacher at the college in 1948. Robert Creeley, who worked...
Fuller, Walter Gropius, Ray Johnson, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, CharlesOlson, Robert Rauschenberg, Mary Caroline Richards, Dorothea Rockburne, Michael...
The Charles and Fae Olson House is a historic house in Gresham, Oregon, United States. Designed and hand-built by the novice owner-occupant as his version...
times with Charles X, Charles XI, Charles XII, Charles XIII, Charles XIV and Charles XV. Charles I of England (1600–1649) is followed by Charles II of England...
rock-and-roll (3rd ed.). Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-440678-7. Boer, Charles. CharlesOlson in Connecticut. North Carolina Wesleyan College Press, 1991, (1975)...
"Readers and Writers". The New Age. xxviii, 126–127. Olson, Charles (1991) [1975]. CharlesOlson & Ezra Pound: An Encounter at St. Elizabeths. Edited...
an annual small magazine of poetry and prose, edited by CharlesOlson, Harvey Brown, and Charles Boer [Brover]. The magazine was published by Harvey Brown...
attendant Godot (1953), Happy Days (1961), Rockaby (1981). The poets CharlesOlson (1910-1970) and J. H. Prynne (1936- ) are, amongst other writing in...
and was considered something of a sinecure. Poet and literary scholar CharlesOlson, who served as a Democratic National Committee official during the 1944...
though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school. He was close with CharlesOlson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He served...
high level of development. In his seminal 1950 essay Projective Verse, CharlesOlson, the theorist of the Black Mountain poets, wrote "One perception must...
'CharlesOlson and Sun Ra.' Fourth Annual CharlesOlson Memorial Lecture. Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, MA. 19 October 2013." in Letters for Olson, edited...
introduction identifies the use of postmodern with its early mention by CharlesOlson, and identifies the field chosen as experimental poetry from after 1945...
right. According to scholar Ian Buchanan, the Black Mountain poets CharlesOlson and Robert Creeley first introduced the term "postmodern" in its current...
post-modernist have also been applied to his later works. The poets CharlesOlson (1910–1970) and J. H. Prynne (b. 1936) have been described as late modernists...
and Moby Dick's final dive allows Fedallah to lead Ahab to his death. CharlesOlson mentions three modes of madness in King Lear, the King's, the Fool's...
determined by breath, Emerson's poetry foreshadowed the theories of CharlesOlson. The following were named after or in honor of Emerson: Harvard's philosophy...
been referred to as the "Postmoderns" (see especially references by CharlesOlson and the Grove anthologies edited by Donald Allen). Though this is now...
Horatio Malkovich, and The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) as Charles VII. His role as Mitch Leary in In the Line of Fire earned him his second...
and Ben Shahn, and met John Cage. The poet and rector of the College, CharlesOlson, had a great influence on him. Motherwell arranged Twombly's first solo...
This included poet and Fugs drummer Ken Weaver and Black Mountain poet CharlesOlson,. According to Miles, a spoken word album by Lawrence Ferlinghetti,...
College. He was replaced on the staff by his friend and fellow author, CharlesOlson. During his years as an expatriate writer in 1920s Paris, he knew James...
Bridson, helped popularize the epic in Britain. In the United States, CharlesOlson praised the epic in his poems and essays and Gregory Corso believed...
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