Poems and Letters of Charles Olson

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Poems and Letters of Charles Olson

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This is a collection of poems and letters written by the American poet Charles Olson.

University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Department of Special Collections

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Olson, Charles, 1910-1970

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Charles Olson, the leading voice of the Black Mountain poets, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and was a notable student at Wesleyan University, where his groundbreaking work on Herman Melville evolved into the highly praised monograph, Call Me Ishmael. Inspired by Franklin Roosevelt, Olson worked his way up through the Democratic Party, but quit after Roosevelt's death, and began a brilliant career as a writer and educator. His manifesto, Projective Verse, influenced a generation of poets ...