Charles Olson | |
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| Born | 27 December 1910 Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | 10 January 1970 (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]
- ^ a b "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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