Call Me Ishmael (Bcli-Ps American Literature Series)

Name: Call Me Ishmael (Bcli-Ps American Literature Series)
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780781269919

by Unknown Author

1993Reprint Services CorpISBN 9780781269919

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Herman Melville was born in New York August 1, 1819, and on the 12th of that month the Essex, a well-found whaler of 238 tons, sailed from Nantucket with George Pollard, Jr. as captain, Owen Chase and Matthew Joy mates, 6 of her complement of 20 men Negroes, bound for the Pacific Ocean, victualled and provided for two years and a half.

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Publisher: Reprint Services Corp
Published: 1993
ISBN: 9780781269919

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Charles Olson was a second generation American modernist poet who was a crucial link between earlier figures like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, a rubric which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance. Consequently, many postmodern groups, such as the poets of the Language School, include Olson as a primary and precedent figure. Across the Atlantic, these various poetic movements have exerted a deep and ongoing influence on an important array of alternative and experimental writers, including Roy Fisher, Geoffrey Hill, JH Prynne and Edwin Morgan, behind whose works lurks Olson's ghost of language-driven inventiveness. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Olson