Three Critics in Search of a Modern and National Poetry: A.J.M. Smith, John Sutherland and Louis Dudek

Type of resource
Author/collaborator
Title
Three Critics in Search of a Modern and National Poetry: A.J.M. Smith, John Sutherland and Louis Dudek
Abstract
The author argues that one theme which united the literary criticism of Montreal poets A.J.M. Smith (1902-1980), John Sutherland (1919-1956) and Louis Dudek (1918-2001) was their attempt to balance the claims of poetic Modernism and nationalism. He contends that Smith tended to emphasize the "modern", Sutherland the "national", and Dudek to achieve a degree of synthesis of this opposition. The author asses the motives and accomplishments of each as critics within a larger context and focuses upon their prose writing (to a virtual exclusion of their poetry), their historical and social situations (Smith in the late 1920s, Sutherland in the 1940s, and Dudek in the 1950s), and their sources.
Type
Master's Thesis
University
Simon Fraser University
Place
Vancouver, BC
Date
1983
# of Pages
vii-182p.
Language
en
URL
Citation
Den Boer, Lloyd. “Three Critics in Search of a Modern and National Poetry: A.J.M. Smith, John Sutherland and Louis Dudek.” Master’s Thesis, Simon Fraser University, 1983. http://summit.sfu.ca/item/6203.
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