Olson, Charles 1910-1970
Overview
| Works: | 986 works in 1,951 publications in 5 languages and 44,352 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Criticism, interpretation, etc Poetry Records and correspondence Biography Literature History |
| Roles: | Author, Former owner, Performer, Author of introduction, Lyricist, Interviewee, Other |
| Classifications: | PS3529.L655, 811.54 |
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Most widely held works about
Charles Olson
- Selected writings of Charles Olson by Charles Olson( Book )
- The Maximus poems by Charles Olson( Book )
- Black Mountain : an exploration in community by Martin B Duberman( Book )
- Charles Olson & Ezra Pound : an encounter at St. Elizabeths by Charles Olson( Book )
- Charles Olson, call him Ishmael by Paul Christensen( Book )
- Charles Olson : the allegory of a poet's life by Tom Clark( Book )
- Olson's push : Origin, Black Mountain, and recent American poetry by Sherman Paul( Book )
- Charles Olson : the scholar's art by Robert Von Hallberg( Book )
- Destructive poetics : Heidegger and modern American poetry by Paul A Bové( Book )
- Charles Olson by Enikő Bollobás( Book )
- Pursuing Melville, 1940-1980 : chapters and essays by Merton M Sealts( Book )
- The poetry of Charles Olson : a primer by Thomas F Merrill( Book )
- Charles Olson in Connecticut by Charles Boer( Book )
- Charles Olson & Robert Creeley : the complete correspondence by Charles Olson( Book )
- The grounding of American poetry : Charles Olson and the Emersonian tradition by Stephen Fredman( Book )
- The failure of modernism : symptoms of American poetry by Andrew Ross( Book )
- Charles Olson's reading : a biography by Ralph Maud( Book )
- Selected letters by Charles Olson( Book )
- Understanding the Black mountain poets by Edward Halsey Foster( Book )
- Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff : a modern correspondence by Charles Olson( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Charles Olson
American poetry : the twentieth century(
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1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 2,352 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains over 1500 poems by more than 200 well-known American poets, including Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens
1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 2,352 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains over 1500 poems by more than 200 well-known American poets, including Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens
Call me Ishmael by
Charles Olson(
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82 editions published between 1947 and 1997 in 5 languages and held by 1,731 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
82 editions published between 1947 and 1997 in 5 languages and held by 1,731 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Maximus poems by
Charles Olson(
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69 editions published between 1960 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,368 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Praised by his contemporaries and emulated by his successors, Charles Olson (1910-1970) was declared by William Carlos Williams to be a major poet with a sweep of understanding of the world, a feeling for other men that staggers me. This complete edition brings together the three volumes of Olson's long poem (originally published in 1960, 1968, and 1975) in an authoritative version
69 editions published between 1960 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,368 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Praised by his contemporaries and emulated by his successors, Charles Olson (1910-1970) was declared by William Carlos Williams to be a major poet with a sweep of understanding of the world, a feeling for other men that staggers me. This complete edition brings together the three volumes of Olson's long poem (originally published in 1960, 1968, and 1975) in an authoritative version
The collected poems of Charles Olson : excluding the Maximus poems by
Charles Olson(
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19 editions published between 1980 and 1997 in English and Undetermined and held by 999 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Background information accompanies Olson's poems about myths, mortality, language, love, nature, marriage, music, and time
19 editions published between 1980 and 1997 in English and Undetermined and held by 999 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Background information accompanies Olson's poems about myths, mortality, language, love, nature, marriage, music, and time
Collected prose by
Charles Olson(
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13 editions published between 1997 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 656 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
13 editions published between 1997 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 656 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Archaeologist of morning by
Charles Olson(
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17 editions published between 1970 and 1973 in English and Undetermined and held by 634 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
17 editions published between 1970 and 1973 in English and Undetermined and held by 634 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The distances; poems by
Charles Olson(
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17 editions published between 1958 and 1961 in English and held by 544 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
17 editions published between 1958 and 1961 in English and held by 544 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Letters for Origin, 1950-1956 by
Charles Olson(
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24 editions published between 1968 and 1989 in English and held by 523 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
24 editions published between 1968 and 1989 in English and held by 523 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Maximus poems IV, V, VI by
Charles Olson(
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15 editions published between 1968 and 1984 in English and Undetermined and held by 469 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
15 editions published between 1968 and 1984 in English and Undetermined and held by 469 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Human universe, and other essays by
Charles Olson(
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14 editions published between 1867 and 1967 in English and held by 460 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
14 editions published between 1867 and 1967 in English and held by 460 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Selected poems by
Robert Creeley(
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12 editions published between 1993 and 1997 in English and held by 457 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Included are paradigmatic early works like "The Kingfishers," which Guy Davenport called "the most modern of American poems, the most energetically influential text in the last thirty-five years," as well as familiar pieces from Maximus like "Maximus, to Gloucester" and "Celestial Evening." Also represented are less known poems, such as "The chain of memory is resurrection" and "The Lamp," works that reveal a more personal side of this major American poet
12 editions published between 1993 and 1997 in English and held by 457 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Included are paradigmatic early works like "The Kingfishers," which Guy Davenport called "the most modern of American poems, the most energetically influential text in the last thirty-five years," as well as familiar pieces from Maximus like "Maximus, to Gloucester" and "Celestial Evening." Also represented are less known poems, such as "The chain of memory is resurrection" and "The Lamp," works that reveal a more personal side of this major American poet
A nation of nothing but poetry : supplementary poems by
Charles Olson(
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8 editions published in 1989 in English and held by 405 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
8 editions published in 1989 in English and held by 405 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The fiery hunt and other plays by
Charles Olson(
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7 editions published in 1977 in English and held by 362 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
7 editions published in 1977 in English and held by 362 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Mayan letters by
Charles Olson(
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19 editions published between 1953 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 345 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
19 editions published between 1953 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 345 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Additional prose: A bibliography on America, Proprioception & other notes & essays by
Charles Olson(
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10 editions published in 1974 in English and held by 345 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
10 editions published in 1974 in English and held by 345 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Poetry and truth; the Beloit lectures and poems by
Charles Olson(
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7 editions published in 1971 in English and held by 329 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
7 editions published in 1971 in English and held by 329 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The special view of history by
Charles Olson(
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8 editions published in 1970 in English and held by 299 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
8 editions published in 1970 in English and held by 299 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In love, in sorrow : the complete correspondence of Charles Olson and Edward Dahlberg by
Charles Olson(
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5 editions published in 1990 in English and held by 257 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
5 editions published in 1990 in English and held by 257 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Proprioception by
Charles Olson(
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7 editions published in 1965 in English and held by 218 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
7 editions published in 1965 in English and held by 218 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Charles Olson & Robert Creeley : the complete correspondence by
Charles Olson(
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31 editions published between 1980 and 1996 in English and Undetermined and held by 92 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
31 editions published between 1980 and 1996 in English and Undetermined and held by 92 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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Related Identities
- Creeley, Robert 1926-2005 Author of introduction Author Editor
- Maud, Ralph Author Editor
- Butterick, George F. Author of introduction Other Author Editor
- Duncan, Robert 1919-1988 Performer Author
- Stein, Gertrude 1874-1946
- Cage, John
- Jeffers, Robinson 1887-1962
- Hammerstein, Oscar II 1895-1960
- Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips) 1890-1937
- Lowell, Amy 1874-1925
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Aesthetics American fiction--English influences American poetry Art Ashbery, John, Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.) Black Mountain school (Group of poets) Books and reading Connecticut Corman, Cid Correspondence (Olson, Charles) Creeley, Robert, Criticism Duncan, Robert, Eliot, T. S.--(Thomas Stearns), Emerson, Ralph Waldo, English poetry English-speaking countries Essays Friendship Heidegger, Martin, Hermeneutics Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Intellectual life Last years of a person's life Melville, Herman, Moby Dick (Melville, Herman) Modernism (Literature) North Carolina--Black Mountain Olson, Charles, Phenomenology Poetics Poetics--Study and teaching Poetry Poetry, Modern Poets, American Pound, Ezra, Psychiatric hospital patients Religion Religion and literature Saint Elizabeths Hospital (Washington, D.C.) Sealts, Merton M Sea stories, American Shakespeare, William, Stevens, Wallace, Subjectivity in literature United States Whitman, Walt, Williams, Jonathan, Williams, William Carlos,
Alternative Names
Carolus Olson
Charles Olson Amerikaans dichter (1910-1970)
Charles Olson amerikansk poet
Charles Olson écrivain américain
Charles Olson escritor estadounidense
Charles Olson poeta statunitense
Charles Olson US-amerikanischer Dichter
Olson, Charles
Olson, Charles 1910-1970
Olson, Charles F.
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