| Letters of Conrad Aiken and Malcolm Lowry, 19291954 Contributor(s): Aiken, Conrad (Author), Sugars, Cynthia C. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 155022168X ISBN-13: 9781550221688 Publisher: ECW Press OUR PRICE: $22.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Canadian - Biography & Autobiography |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 93184250 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 8.8" (1.32 lbs) 350 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |