Biography of canadian authors meet
Biography of canadian authors meet
Canadian poets.
This is the first full-scale scholarly biography of a Canadian Modernist poet of the first generation, and that is one of the most important facts of the book. Pratt has found his biographer, Layton his, but the sandwiched Modernists associated with the McGill Fortnightly Review of the 1920s, or those peripheral to it (Glassco, Klein), or those contemporary with it (Livesay, Ross), appear to have slipped through the critical sieve in recent years. Livesay and Klein receive the most attention of the bunch, perhaps because they may be taken to represent "minority" constituencies of particular contemporary interest. Thanks to Canadian Poetry, Smith and Glassco received a flurry of attention in special issues published at their deaths; the same journal published a tribute-issue to F.R. Scott in