Charles Olson (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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Charles Olson was a prolific essayist, espousing the essay form in order to advance his poetic concerns to a wider audience. His prose style can present as many difficulties as his poetry, however, difficulties to a large extent deliberately sought by Olson, who was concerned that his literary production not be consumed too easily in an era of speed-reading. With Call Me Ishmael: A Study of Melville, a book-length study of Herman Melville, published in 1947, Olson...
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