During the Second World War, a number of young Canadian poets converged on Montreal and, in a few years of little-magazine and small-press publication, rewrote the story of modern English-Canadian poetry. The Montreal Forties establishes a new reading of Canadian modernist poetry in this crucial decade, during which the radical impersonality of high-modernist poetics gave way to an ironic expression of the modern individual in years of unexampled geopolitical and private crisis.
The book discusses four major English-Canadian poets of the forties; P.K. Page, A.M. Klein,...
During the Second World War, a number of young Canadian poets converged on Montreal and, in a few years of little-magazine and small-press publicat...
