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Literary Criticism Canadian

Canadian Writers and Their Works - Poetry

A.J.M. Smith, F.R. Scott, A.M. Klein, Leo Kennedy, and Robert Finch

edited by Jack David, Robert Lecker & Ellen Quigley

introduction by George Woodcock

Publisher
ECW Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1990
Category
Canadian
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781550220216
    Publish Date
    Jan 1990
    List Price
    $45.00 USD

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A study of Canadian poets A.J.M. Smith, F.R. Scott, A.M. Klein, Leo Kennedy, and Robert Finch.

About the authors

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Robert Lecker is Greenshields Professor of English at McGill University. He is the editor of several anthologies, most recently Open Country: Canadian Literature in English, and the author of numerous books and articles, including On the Line, Robert Kroetsch, Another I, Making It Real, Dr. Delicious, The Cadence of Civil Elegies, and Keepers of the Code.

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George Woodcock (1912-1995) is one of Canada's best-known and most prolific authors. He was born in Winnipeg and educated in England, where he socialized with some of the century's most prominent writers and intellectuals including Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Herbert Read and T.S. Eliot. He returned to Canada in 1949 and taught at the University of British Columbia for many years. In 1959, he founded the journal Canadian Literature. His contribtution to Canadian culture is immeasurable; he either wrote or edited over one-hundred books including The Crystal Spirit, his Governor-Genral's award-winning biography of Orwell; Gabriel Dumont, another bestselling biography; and Anarchism a guide to the political philosophy which continues to be read around the world. His wide range of writing includes literary criticism, poetry, travel writing, plays, social history, biography, politics and essays.

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