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At the Boundary of the Mighty World: Charles Olson and Hesiod
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 47, Number 4, December 2014
- pp. 135-150
- 10.1353/mos.2014.0041
- Article
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Despite his well-known dismissal of the classical Greek tradition, Charles Olson alludes to Hesiod surprisingly often in his poetry and prose. This essay asks why Olson found Hesiod useful and suggests that earlier critics have misread the nature of Olson’s relationship to Hesiod.