WRITER

Charles Olson

1910 - 1970

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Charles Olson (27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970) was a second generation modernist American poet who was a link between earlier modernist figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the third generation modernist New American poets. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Olson has received more than 229,304 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Charles Olson is the 6,160th most popular writer (down from 5,699th in 2019), the 10,479th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,423rd in 2019) and the 781st most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Great Chicago Fire of 1871
Fires, History, Juvenile literature
In graphic novel format, tells the story of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, an inferno that forever changed the city's skyline.
2006
The Complete Correspondence of Charles Olson & Robert Creeley
Olson, charles, 1910-1970, Creeley, robert, 1926-2005, American letters
1980
Charles Olson and Robert Creeley
Correspondence, American Poets, Biography: general
1980
The Maximus poems
American poetry
1960
Call Me Ishmael
American Sea stories, American fiction, Criticism and interpretation
1947
Levi Strauss and Blue Jeans
2006

Page views of Charles Olsons by language

Over the past year Charles Olson has had the most page views in the with 24,276 views, followed by Spanish (2,306), and French (1,371). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (193.10%), Basque (90.87%), and Latin (86.40%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Charles Olson ranks 6,160 out of 7,302. Before him are Jaime Bayly, E. W. Hornung, Daniel Kehlmann, Ernest Lehman, Irena Krzywicka, and Jerry Pournelle. After him are Henry Jenkins, Cecelia Ahern, Varsha Adalja, Jun Maeda, Frank Harris, and Barbara Frischmuth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Charles Olson ranks 368. Before him are Jimmy Murphy, David Rose, Raya Dunayevskaya, Bill Pickering, Carlos Cillóniz, and John Hunt, Baron Hunt. After him are Margaret Lindsay, Alexander Hurd, Chidambaram Subramaniam, Jack Lovelock, Rosa Kellner, and Gavino Matta. Among people deceased in 1970, Charles Olson ranks 246. Before him are Maurice Stokes, John T. Scopes, Laura Knight, William Hopper, Keen Johnson, and Teofilo Spasojević. After him are Feroz Khan Noon, Earl Eby, Chester Morris, Marjorie Rambeau, Charlie Ruggles, and Preston Foster.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Olson ranks 10,479 out of 20,380. Before him are William B. Lenoir (1939), Ernest Lehman (1915), Laurie Bird (1952), Joseph Mascolo (1929), Kurt Wimmer (1964), and Jerry Pournelle (1933). After him are Slim Whitman (1923), Claudia Christian (1965), Randy Matson (1945), Henry Jenkins (1958), David Lindley (1944), and Emma P. Carr (1880).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Charles Olson ranks 781. Before him are David Halberstam (1934), Patricia A. McKillip (1948), John Logan (1961), Walker Percy (1916), Ernest Lehman (1915), and Jerry Pournelle (1933). After him are Henry Jenkins (1958), Theodore Roethke (1908), Robert Creeley (1926), Anthony Doerr (1973), George Saunders (1958), and David McCullough (1933).

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