Olson & Corbin, continued - Corbin & Poetry #30

"The Maximus Poems are confusing if we read them without reference to the visionary identification of Gloucester with Hurqualya. If  Corbin's writings (particularly the essay on Mundus Imaginalis) are read as the best introduction one might obtain to a reading of the Maximus Poems, hopefully we may come around to a recognition of the fact that the Maximus Poems are one of the marvelous recent illustrations we have of what the world of the mundus imaginalis may be: a place beyond "literature," outside "the self," beyond questions of "audience" and "entertainment," which is where we finally arrive at an imaginal perspective on myth and history as primary tools of the soul." - Jed Rasula, "Charles Olson and Robert Duncan: Muthologistical Grounding" - Spring Journal 1979, 105.