[Lecture on Herman Melville at Goddard College, April 14, 1962] / Charles Olson.

Recorded at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vt. on April 14, 1962 on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.

Charles Olson's lecture on Herman Melville held at Goddard College in 1962. Olson reads from the essays "A house built by Capt. John Somes 1763" and "Equal, that is, to the real itself," the poem "Letter for Melville 1951," and the prologue to Call me Ishmael (1947). Olson also read the short prose piece "Omnia mea mecum porto" by Gino Clays, which was published in the March 19, 1962 issue of Clays' magazine A pamphlet. Complementary to this lecture (CUR021) is the reading that Olson gave at Goddard two nights prior (CUR020).

Charles Olson.

The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries. Digital conversion was made possible through a 2009 National Endowment for the Humanities grant.

1962

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CUR021

from Additional Prose (1974):A house built by Capt. John Somes 1763 (early version) --fromOmnia Mea Mecum Porto (Gino Clays) --from The distances (1960):Letter for Melville 1951 --from Human Universe and other essays (1967):Equal, that is, to the real itself (early version) --from Call me Ishmael (1947):First fact.

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