Essays, a script for a dance play, complete text of "Mayan letters", and poems.

The prose writings of Charles Olson (1910-1970) have had a far-reaching and continuing impact on post-World War II American poetics. Olson's theories, which made explicit the principles of his own poetics and those of the Black Mountain poets, were instrumental in defining the sense of the postmodern in poetry and form the basis of most postwar free verse. The Collected Prose brings together in one volume the works published for the most part between...

Provides plot summary, list of characters, and critical views for four Melville short stories: "Bartleby, the scrivener: a story of Wall Street," "The Encantadas" (or Enchanted isles), "Benito Cereno," and "Billy Budd, sailor."