Elder Olson
American writer
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- Masters Creative Writing Columbia University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Elder James Olson was an American poet, teacher and literary critic. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended Carl Schurz High School. As an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, he published a volume of poetry. Thereafter, he published multiple volumes of poetry and literary criticism during his career, for which he received multiple awards. After graduating with a BA in 1934, he was awarded an MA from the University of Chicago in 1935. The same year he received a Friends of Literature award. In 1937, he married Ann Elisabeth Jones and the couple had two children . He was awarded a Ph.D. in 1938 from the University of Chicago with the dissertation, General Prosody, Rhythmis, Metric, Harmonic.
Elder Olson's Published Works
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- Critics and Criticism. (1954) (50)
- The theory of comedy (1968) (49)
- Critics and Criticism, Ancient and Modern (1952) (41)
- Tragedy and the theory of drama (1961) (23)
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1948) (17)
- The Poetry of Dylan Thomas (1954) (14)
- William Empson, Contemporary Criticism and Poetic Diction (1950) (13)
- Aristotle's "Poetics" and English literature : a collection of critical essays (1965) (9)
- The Argument of Longinus' "On the Sublime" (1942) (7)
- Rhetoric and the Appreciation of Pope (1939) (5)
- On Value Judgments in the Arts (1974) (4)
- The Poetry of Marianne Moore (1957) (3)
- The Poetic Process (1975) (3)
- On value judgments in the arts, and other essays (1976) (2)
- American Lyric Poems, From Colonial Times to the Present (1964) (2)
- General prosody : rhythmic, metric, harmonics (1938) (1)
- A Conspectus of Poetry: Part II (1977) (1)
- History-to-Be and History-Already (1977) (1)
- Hamlet and the Hermeneutics of Drama (1964) (1)
- Contemporay Poetry: Critique (1948) (1)
- A Letter on Teaching Drama (1957) (1)
- Louise Bogan and Léonie Adams (1954) (1)
- The Journals of Thornton Wilder, 1939-1961 with Two scenes of an Uncompleted Play, "The Emporium". Thornton Wilder , Donald Gallup (1987) (0)
- "MIGHTY OPPOSITES" : REMARKS ON THE PLOT OF HAMLET (1972) (0)
- Literary Scholarship: Its Aims and Methods. Norman Foerster , John C. McGalliard , René Wellek , Austin Warren , Wilbur L. Schramm (1943) (0)
- Recent Literary Criticism (1943) (0)
- A Dream for a Sad Lady (1959) (0)
- The Cock of Heaven (1940) (0)
- Book Review:The Stylistic Development of Keats Walter Jackson Bate (1947) (0)
- Mobile by Calder (1958) (0)
- The midnight meditation : for voice and piano (1954) (0)
- A Restaurant in South-East Asia (1972) (0)
- A Dialogue on the Function of Art in Society (1964) (0)
- Major voices: 20 British and American poets (1973) (0)
- Olson's Penny Arcade (1975) (0)
- A Conspectus of Poetry: Part I (1977) (0)
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