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Letters of John Sutherland, 1942-56 (Paperback)
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Short Description for Letters of John Sutherland, 1942-56From the beginning, John Sutherland recognized that his literary gifts lay in criticism rather than in poetry. His independence from the academy and his largely autodidactic training gave him a unique perspective as a critic of Canadian literature. What these letters document, beyond a purely personal struggle, is a period of great importance in the development of Canadian poetry (1942–1956), and ...
Full description- Publisher: ECW Press,Canada
- Published: 01 October 1994
- Format: Paperback 362 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Autobiography: General | Literary Studies: General
- ISBN 13: 9781550221701 ISBN 10: 1550221701
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Full description for Letters of John Sutherland, 1942-56
From the beginning, John Sutherland recognized that his literary gifts lay in criticism rather than in poetry. His independence from the academy and his largely autodidactic training gave him a unique perspective as a critic of Canadian literature. What these letters document, beyond a purely personal struggle, is a period of great importance in the development of Canadian poetry (1942–1956), and it is above all the nuts and bolts of that development that they bring into keen relief: the economics of publishing books and literary magazines in the days before The Canada Council, and the difficulty, if not the impossibility, of trying wholly to live a life in literature at that time.
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