Projective Verse Revised : Charles Olson's Approach to Visionary Poetry in the Tradition of Walt Whitman

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Hamburg (Institut fr Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: From Whitman to Ginsberg - American Visionary Poetry & the Emersonian Tradition, language: English, abstract: The aim of this work is a short analysis of Charles Olson's "Projective Verse" and the Whitmanic influences - Whitman's ideas, mentioned in his "Preface" to Leaves of Grass and realized in the rest of his work, which then were taken up by Olson almost one century later.