* 1910 – Charles Olson, American poet ( d. 1970 )

** The Maximus Poems by Charles Olson ( composed 1950-1970 )

David Antin, Charles Olson, John Cage, and the Black Mountain College school of poetry and the arts were integral figures in the intellectual and artistic exposition of postmodernism at the time.

Process philosophy is also believed to have influenced some 20th-century modernists, such as D. H. Lawrence, William Faulkner and Charles Olson.

In poetry, the work and thought of American Charles Olson was strongly influenced by Whitehead's concepts.

Some influential avant-garde figures in English-language literature have included Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson, William Gaddis, John Hawkes, John Ashbery, Joseph McElroy, Stanley Elkin, John Barth, Robert Coover, Kathy Acker, Giannina Braschi, and Thomas Pynchon.

In his seminal 1950 essay Projective Verse, Charles Olson, the theorist of the Black Mountain group, wrote " ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY LEAD TO A FURTHER PERCEPTION "; his credo derived from and supplemented the Imagists.

Brother Charles Gauber started a small school called the Simon Olson Shack before the town was incorporated.

Cage stood reading from a ladder, Charles Olson read from another ladder, Robert Rauschenberg showed some of his paintings and played wax cylinders of Édith Piaf on an Edison horn recorder, David Tudor performed on a prepared piano and Merce Cunningham danced.

According to Kramer, the MC5 of this period was politically influenced by the Marxism of the Black Panther Party and Fred Hampton, and poets of the Beat Generation such as Allen Ginsberg and Ed Sanders, or Modernist's poets like Charles Olson.

* January 10 – Charles Olson, poet

* Olson, Storrs L .; James, Helen F. & Meister, Charles A.

He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn.

* Olson, Storrs L .; James, Helen F. & Meister, Charles A.

Along with people like naturalist Sigurd Olson, legislator Willard Munger, and famed aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, Elmer Andersen had devoted thousands of hours doing the hard work of persuading landowners, timber industry leaders, politicians, and citizens of the value of this park to future generations.

At the 1963 Vancouver Poetry Festival Bromige met Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, and Robert Duncan.

* Olson, Storrs L .; James, Helen F. & Meister, Charles A.

Charles Olson, the theorist of the Black Mountain group, wrote in his 1950 essay, Projectivist Verse ' ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY LEAD TO A FURTHER PERCEPTION ', a statement that links back directly to the Imagists.

Among the other poets published by the New Writers Press were Geoffrey Squires ( born 1942 ), whose early work was influenced by Charles Olson, and Augustus Young ( born 1943 ), who admired Pound and who has translated older Irish poetry, as well as work from Latin America and poems by Bertolt Brecht.

* Olson, Storrs L .; James, Helen F. & Meister, Charles A.

Charles Olson

Charles Olson ( 27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970 ), was a second generation American modernist poet who was a link between earlier figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance.

Gravestone of Charles and Betty Olson, Beechbrook Cemetery, Gloucester, Mass

He subsequently became rector of Black Mountain College and had a second child, Charles Peter Olson, with one of his students, Betty Kaiser.

When Olson knew he was dying of cancer, he instructed his literary executor Charles Boer and others to organise and produce the final book in the sequence following Olson's death.

* 1661 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman ( d. 1715 )

* 1920 – Charles Bukowski, American poet ( d. 1994 )

* 1935 – Charles Wright, American poet

* 1946 – Charles Ghigna, American poet and author

Craig Joseph Charles ( born 11 July 1964 ) is an English actor, comedian, author, poet, television presenter and radio DJ.

Charles first appeared on television as a performance poet, which led on to minor presenting roles.

Charles began his career as a contemporary and urban performance poet on the British cabaret circuit.

Charles first appeared on television as the resident poet on the arts programme Riverside on BBC2, and on the day-time BBC1 chat show Pebble Mill at One.

Charles was the resident poet on Channel 4's Black on Black ( 1985 ), and its entertainment-based successor, Club Mix ( 1986 ), and appeared, weekly, as a John Cooper Clarke-style ' punk poet ' on the BBC2 pop music programme Oxford Road Show under the name of " Susan Williams ".

* 1791 – Charles Wolfe, Irish poet ( d. 1823 )

* 1706 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier ( b. 1638 )

* 1638 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet ( d. 1706 )

* 1873 – Charles Péguy, French poet and essayist ( d. 1914 )

* 1927 – Charles Tomlinson, British poet and translator

* 1860 – Charles G. D. Roberts, Canadian poet and writer ( d. 1943 )

Charles Lamb, poet and friend of Coleridge, witnessed Coleridge's work towards publishing the poem and wrote to Wordsworth: " Coleridge is printing Xtabel by Lord Byron's recommendation to Murray, with what he calls a vision of Kubla Khan – which said vision he repeats so enchantingly that it irradiates & brings Heaven & Elysian bowers into my parlour while he sings or says it ".

Responding in part to Wheeler in 1986, Charles Rzepka analysed the relationship between the poet and the audience of the poem while describing Kubla Khan as one of " Coleridge's three great poems of the supernatural ".

As an instance of his tact in this capacity, it is related that when Charles interrupted a complimentary address by quoting from a satirical poem of Alamanni's the words :" l ' aquila grifagna, Che per piu devorar, duoi rostri porta " (" Two crooked bills the ravenous eagle bears, The better to devour "), the latter at once replied that he spoke them as a poet, who was permitted to use fictions, but that he spoke now as an ambassador, who was obliged to tell the truth.

* 1938 – Charles Simic, Yugoslavian poet, 15th Poet Laureate of the United States

The second French school was Symbolism, which literary historians see beginning with the poet Charles Baudelaire ( 1861 – 67 ) ( Les fleurs du mal, 1857 ), and including the later poets, Arthur Rimbaud ( 1854 – 91 ), Paul Verlaine ( 1844 – 96 ), Stéphane Mallarmé ( 1842 – 98 ), and Paul Valéry ( 1871 – 1945 ).

David Charles Mooney Australian poet

* 1394 – Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet ( d. 1465 )

Boniface also placed the city of Florence under an interdict and invited the ambitious French Count Charles of Valois to enter Italy in 1300 to end the feud of Black and White Guelphs, the poet Dante being in the party of the Whites.