Charles Olson and the Vatic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11327429 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William Aiken (0000-0002-4523-8675, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1/2 |
| Pages | 26 |
| Publication date | 1973-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | boundary 2 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-3659 • E-ISSN: 1527-2141 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/302745 |
| OpenAlex | W2320626782 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
In speaking of the experience at Black Mountain College, Robert Duncan has been quoted as emphasizing Olson's view of the poem. Not magic in the sense of doing something that you mean to do in the end, but in the sense of causing things to happen. According to Duncan, Olson saw education as spiritual attack .... wanted things to happen in his students spiritually . . . . wanted to produce a new and redeemed man.' A similar view of Olson is expressed by one of his students: He had one object: he was out to convert your soul, at least to compel the awareness you had one and that it sang and cried.2 If one considers Olson's random comments about his ultimate
Sociology · History · Music History and Culture · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism
| Citations per year | 0.47 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2020 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |