The Maximus Poems

The Maximus Poems
Title The Maximus Poems PDF eBook
Author Charles Olson
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 660
Release 1983
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0520055950

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The Maximus Poems is one of the high achievements of twentieth-century American letters and an essential poem in the postmodern canon. It stands out, in Hayden Carruth's words, as "a huge and truly angelic effort," matching the dimensions of its hero's name and returning poetry to its Homeric and Hesiodic scope. This complete edition of The Maximus Poems brings together the three volumes of Charles Olson's long poem (originally published in 1960, 1968, and 1975, and long out of print) in an authoritative version edited according to the highest standards of textual criticism. Errors in the previous editions have been corrected, twenty-nine new poems added, and the sequence of the final poems modified in the light of the editor's research among the poet's papers. --University of California Press.

A Guide to the Maximus Poems of Charles Olson

A Guide to the Maximus Poems of Charles Olson
Title A Guide to the Maximus Poems of Charles Olson PDF eBook
Author George F. Butterick
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 908
Release 1980-01-01
Genre Poetry
ISBN 9780520042704

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00 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. 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.

Maximus to Gloucester

Maximus to Gloucester
Title Maximus to Gloucester PDF eBook
Author Charles Olson
Publisher
Pages 188
Release 1992
Genre Literary Collections
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Selected Poems of Charles Olson

Selected Poems of Charles Olson
Title Selected Poems of Charles Olson PDF eBook
Author Charles Olson
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 246
Release 2023-09-01
Genre Poetry
ISBN 0520920422

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"I have assumed a great deal in the selection of the poems from such a large and various number, making them a discourse unavoidably my own as well as any Olson himself might have chosen to offer. I had finally no advice but the long held habit of our using one another, during his life, to act as a measure, a bearing, an unabashed response to what either might write or say."—Robert Creeley A seminal figure in post-World War II literature, Charles Olson has helped define the postmodern sensibility. His poetry embraces themes of empowering love, political responsibility, the wisdom of dreams, the intellect as a unit of energy, the restoration of the archaic, and the transformation of consciousness—all carried in a voice both intimate and grand, American and timeless, impassioned and coolly demanding. In this selection of some 70 poems, Robert Creeley has sought to present a personal reading of Charles Olson's decisive and inimitable work—"unequivocal instances of his genius"—over the many years of their friendship.

Selected Letters

Selected Letters
Title Selected Letters PDF eBook
Author Charles Olson
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 534
Release 2001-02-21
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0520918002

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For Charles Olson, letters were not only a daily means of communication with friends but were at the same time a vehicle for exploratory thought. In fact, many of Olson's finest works, including Projective Verse and the Maximus Poems, were formulated as letters. Olson's letters are important to an understanding of his definition of the postmodern, and through the play of mind exhibited here we recognize him as one of the vital thinkers of the twentieth century. In this volume, edited and annotated by Ralph Maud, we see Olson at the height of his powers and also at his most human. Nearly 200 letters, selected from a known 3,000, demonstrate the wide range of Olson's interests and the depth of his concern for the future. Maud includes letters to friends and loved ones, job and grant applications, letters of recommendation, and Black Mountain College business letters, as well as correspondence illuminating Olson's poetics. As we read through the letters, which span the years from 1931, when Olson was an undergraduate, to his death in 1970, a fascinating portrait of this complex poet and thinker emerges.

Charles Olson and Alfred North Whitehead

Charles Olson and Alfred North Whitehead
Title Charles Olson and Alfred North Whitehead PDF eBook
Author Shachar Bram
Publisher Bucknell University Press
Pages 182
Release 2004
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780838755570

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Annotation "Through a detailed and thoughtful study of the impact of Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy on Olson's aesthetic theory, this book points out the conceptual unity underlying what seems to be a sprawl of fragments in Olson's major work, The Maximus Poems." "On the one hand, concrete poetic units of The Maximus Poems serve as a starting point for clarifying how different elements are joined together in one unity. On the other hand, the book traces the blending of the whole poem at the macro level, following its course through a temporal progress in which the poem moves from one poetic unit to the next; that is, from a unity (of multiplicity) to a new unity (in which the previous unity is already part of the multiplicity building the new one). Thus the book illuminates Olson's theory of the Long Poem as an "all-containing" corpus, governed by metaphysical principles, equal to life itself, enacted in the process of working on The Maximus Poems."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Charles Olson & Robert Creeley

Charles Olson & Robert Creeley
Title Charles Olson & Robert Creeley PDF eBook
Author Charles Olson
Publisher
Pages 298
Release 1980
Genre Biography & Autobiography
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Letters written during the spring and summer of 1951 convey the artistic concerns of the two writers and share commentary on their poems and essays in progress.