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Robert Finch (poet)
Robert Duer Claydon Finch (May 14, 1900 – June 11, 1995) was a Canadian poet and academic. He twice won Canada's top literary honor, the Governor General's Award, for his poetry.Robert Finch" Online Guide to Writing in Canada. Web, Mar. 17, 2011. Life Born in Freeport, Long Island, New York, Finch was educated at the University of Toronto and the Sorbonne. He was a professor of French at the University of Toronto for four decades (1928–1968), and an expert on French poetry.E.D. Blodgett,Finch, Robert Duer Claydon" ''Canadian Encyclopedia'' (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988), 773. Writing ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'' calls Finch "one of Canada's modernists" in poetry. It adds: "His work, deeply imbued with the classical tradition, is characterized by an intense care for form and graced by a rare subtlety and elegance." Finch began writing poetry in the early 1920s; "like most of the Canadian Modernists, he wrote much of his best known poetry in the 1930s, when the Depression prec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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New Provinces (poetry Anthology)
''New Provinces: Poems of Several Authors'' was an anthology of Canadian poetry published in the 1930s, anonymously edited by F. R. Scott assisted by Leo Kennedy and A. J. M. Smith. The first anthology of Canadian modernist poetry, it has been hailed as a "landmark anthology" and a "milestone selection of modernist Canadian verse".Michael Gnarowski,"New Provinces: Poems of Several Authors" ''Canadian Encyclopedia'' (Hurtig: Edmonton, 1988), 1479. History Kennedy, Scott, Smith, and fellow Montreal poet A. M. Klein were all members of the Montreal Group of poets centred on that city's McGill University in the 1920s and early 1930s. Smith and Scott had co-edited the ''McGill Fortnightly Review''; Kennedy and Klein were respectively editors of the ''Reviews successor journals, the ''Canadian Mercury'' and the ''McGilliad''. The four poets began assembling an anthology of poetry in 1931, and in 1934 invited Toronto poets Robert Finch and E. J. Pratt to join them. Scott and Smith d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *March – at a dinner celebrating Robert Frost's 85th birthday, the critic Lionel Trilling gives some brief remarks about Frost's poetry and "permanently changed the way people think about his subject", according to critic Adam Kirsch. Trilling says that Frost had been long viewed as a folksy, unobjectionable poet, "an articulate Bald Eagle" who gave readers comfortable truths in traditional meter and New England dialect in such schoolbook favorites such as "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" and "The Road Not Taken"; but was instead was "a terrifying poet" not so much like Longfellow as Sophocles, "who made plain ... the terrible things of human life." Trilling is severely criticized at the time, but his view will become widely accepted in the following decades. *May 18–24 – Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Union, head of state, in an extemporaneous s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * T. S. Eliot founds the Poetry Book Society in the U.K. * George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen and Harold L. Humes found ''The Paris Review''. * ''Nuovi Argomenti'', an influential Italian literary magazine, founded by Alberto Carrocci and Alberto Moravia in Rome. * The October issue of ''Atlantic Monthly'' magazine in the United States publishes "Perspectives of India", anthologizing poems from India. * November 5 – Dylan Thomas, on a poetry reading tour of the United States, is admitted to Saint Vincent's hospital in Manhattan in a coma from which he does not recover before his death on November 9. Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Canada * Robert Finch, ''A Century has Roots''.Robert Finch" Online Guide t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1948 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 6 – Pablo Neruda speaks out in the Senate of Chile against political repression and is forced into hiding. * Summer – Composer Richard Strauss sets three short poems by Hermann Hesse to music; they become part of his valedictory ''Four Last Songs'', his final works before his death in 1949. * September 17 – The remains of Irish poet W. B. Yeats (who died at Menton, France in 1939) are re-buried at Drumcliffe, County Sligo, "Under bare Ben Bulben's head", having been moved from the original burial place, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, on Irish Naval Service corvette LÉ ''Macha''. His grave at Drumcliffe, with an epitaph from "Under Ben Bulben", one of his final poems ("Cast a cold Eye / On Life, on Death. / Horseman, pass by"), becomes a place of literary pilgrimage * Sometime this year, Jack Kerouac introduces the phrase Beat Generation to descr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poems Of Several Authors
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, a prosaic ostensible meaning. A poem is a literary composition, written by a poet, using this principle. Poetry has a long and varied history, evolving differentially across the globe. It dates back at least to prehistoric times with hunting poetry in Africa and to panegyric and elegiac court poetry of the empires of the Nile, Niger, and Volta River valleys. Some of the earliest written poetry in Africa occurs among the Pyramid Texts written during the 25th century BCE. The earliest surviving Western Asian epic poetry, the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'', was written in Sumerian. Early poems in the Eurasian continent evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese ''Shijing'', as well as religious hymns (the Sanskrit ''R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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