Black Mountain Poets

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

James Maynard (Buffalo State, SUNY)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Domains

Movements, styles and periods (literature)

Dates

Date of occurrence 1954-1960

Places

United States (Location)

Genres and Modes

Poetry (any)

ORIGIN and the BLACK MOUNTAIN REVIEW: what other solid ground was there in the last decade?
Paul Blackburn, “The Grinding Down” (1963)

The Black Mountain poets emerged in the 1950s as a group of writers associated with Black Mountain College in Black Mountain, North Carolina. Although a number of poets are sometimes designated as members of the group, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, and Denise Levertov are usually recognized as the central Black Mountain figures on the basis of their shared concerns, certain affinities in their writings and the depth of their relationships with one another. There is some question regarding exactly which poets should be included in the group, a…

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Citation: Maynard, James. "Black Mountain Poets". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 June 2006 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=127, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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