A.M. Klein : The Impulse to Define
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A.M. Klein : The Impulse to Define
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| Abstract |
The author remarks on the critical tendency to categorize Montreal poet A.M. Klein's (1909-1972) poetry into three major categories: the "Radical" poems, which exemplify Klein's Marxist leanings in the 1930's; the "Jewish" group (probably written in the late 1920's and in the 1930's), which includes two volumes of poems selected by the poet, Hath Not a Jew (1940) and Poems (1944), and the verse satire of the Nazi regime, The Hitleriad (1944) ; and the "Canadian" group, which is best represented in The Rocking Chair and Other Poems (1948), a volume composed of poems written in the middle and late 1940's and selected for volume publication. The author summarizes Klein's basic themes as: (i) the need for social reform; (ii) the suppressed potential of the Jewish people; (iii) the nature of the French-Canadian milieu.
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Canadian Literature
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No. 79
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5-17
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Winter 1978
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en
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Popham, E.A. “A.M. Klein : The Impulse to Define.” Canadian Literature No. 79 (Winter 1978): 5–17. https://canlit.ca/full-issue/?issue=79.
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