Muthologos - Charles Olson

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Auteur(s) : Charles Olson

Editeur : Talonbooks

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/12/2010

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 496

Expédition : 700

Dimensions : 22.9 x 15.4 x 3.2

ISBN : 9780889226395

Résumé :

Charles Olson (1910-1970) was a giant of a man in physical stature, critical and intellectual range, and imaginative power. His masterwork, The Maximus Poems, stands beside Ezra Pound's The Cantos as one of the two great American long poems of the twentieth century - indeed, it can be seen as a democratic and relativist response to Pound's absolutist manifesto. Olson's boundless energy, penetrating curiosity, and limitless dedication to his craft made him and his work the syncretic centre of the evolving discourse of mid-twentieth century poetics in English.

Olson's first two books, Call Me Ishmael (1947), a study of Melville's Moby-Dick, and The Mayan Letters (1953), written to poet Robert Creeley from Mexico, cover a range of subjects - mythology, anthropology, language, and cultural history - and use the fervent informal style that were to distinguish all his discursive prose. Olson's manifesto, Projective Verse, published in 1950, was quoted extensively in William Carlos Williams's Autobiography (1951). Olson was a visiting lecturer and then rector at Black Mountain College in its last years, 1951-1956, and taught at the State University of New York, Buffalo, 1963-1965. Settling in Gloucester, Massachusetts, he devoted most of his time and energy until his death in 1970 to The Maximus Poems (1953-1975).

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Biographie:

Charles Olson (1910-1970) was a giant of a man in physical stature, critical and intellectual range, and imaginative power. His masterwork, The Maximus Poems, stands beside Ezra Pound's The Cantos as one of the two great American long poems of the twentieth century - indeed, it can be seen as a democratic and relativist response to Pound's absolutist manifesto. Olson's boundless energy, penetrating curiosity, and limitless dedication to his craft made him and his work the syncretic centre of the evolving discourse of mid-twentieth century poetics in English.

Olson's first two books, Call Me Ishmael (1947), a study of Melville's Moby-Dick, and The Mayan Letters (1953), written to poet Robert Creeley from Mexico, cover a range of subjects - mythology, anthropology, language, and cultural history - and use the fervent informal style that were to distinguish all his discursive prose. Olson's manifesto, Projective Verse, published in 1950, was quoted extensively in William Carlos Williams's Autobiography (1951). Olson was a visiting lecturer and then rector at Black Mountain College in its last years, 1951-1956, and taught at the State University of New York, Buffalo, 1963-1965. Settling in Gloucester, Massachusetts, he devoted most of his time and energy until his death in 1970 to The Maximus Poems (1953-1975).

Sommaire:

Charles Olson
Charles Olson's first two books, Call Me Ishmael (1947), a study of Melville's Moby Dick, and The Mayan Letters (1953), written to Robert Creeley from Mexico, cover a range of subjects-mythology, anthropology, language, and cultural history-and use the fervent informal style that were to distinguish all his discursive prose. Settling in Gloucester, Massachusetts, he devoted most of his time and energy until his death in 1970 to The Maximus Poems, his most substantial work.

Ralph Maud
Ralph Maud is the author of Charles Olson Reading (1996) and the editor of The Selected Letters of Charles Olson (2000.) He has edited much of Dylan Thomas's work, including The Notebook Poems 1930-1934 and The Broadcasts, and is co-editor, with Walford Davies, of Dylan Thomas: The Collected Poems, 1934-1953 and Under Milk Wood. Maud is also the editor of The Salish People: Volumes I, II, III & IV by pioneer ethnographer Charles Hill-Tout. In addition, he has done extensive work on the translation collaboration between Henry W. Tate and Franz Boas, including the book, Transmission Difficulties: Franz Boas and Tsimshian Mythology.