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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807739803321

Autore

Trehearne Brian <1957->

Titolo

The Montreal forties : modernist poetry in transition / / Brian Trehearne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1999

©1999

ISBN

1-282-03712-9

9786612037122

1-4426-8172-1

Descrizione fisica

x, 381 p. ; ; 24 cm

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

811/.5209971428

Soggetti

Modernism (Literature) - Québec (Province) - Montréal

LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian

Livres numeriques.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

e-books.

Electronic books.

Montréal (Québec) Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : reading the forties poets -- 1. Imagist twilight : Page's early poetry -- 2. The poem in the mind : the Integritas of Klein in the forties -- 3. Image and ego : Layton's lyric progress -- 4. Forties continuations : Dudek's long poems and the period style -- Conclusion : the generations of the forties.

Sommario/riassunto

During WWII, a number of Canadian poets converged on Montreal and rewrote the story of modern English-Canadian poetry. The book discusses the four major English-Canadian poets to emerge in the 40s; PK Page, AM Klein, Irving Layton and Louis Dudek.