The Maximus Poems, Volume 3 (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Olson
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Work: Long poem
- Genres: Free verse, Poetry, Lyric sequence
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, United States or Americans, Wives, Philosophy or philosophers, Mythology or myths, God, Cancer, Death or dying, Sailing or sailors, Bereavement or grief, Earth, Terminal illness or terminally ill, Fishing or fishermen, Cities or towns, Commerce, Geology or geologists, Poetics, Massachusetts, Stone
Volume 3 of The Maximus Poems was never completed by Olson, who died in 1970, but among the mass of material left after his death were indications of certain directions that later scholars followed in gathering the material and organizing it into a coherent form. University of Connecticut professors George Butterick and Charles Boer devoted many years to a thoughtful arrangement of the materials for volume 3. Olson had determined the first and last poems in the collection, and Butterick and Boer followed the same order that Olson had used in the first two volumes—essentially...
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