Irving Layton (1912–2006)
Autor/a de A Wild Peculiar Joy
Sobre l'autor
Irving Layton was born in Romania in 1912; a year later he and his parents arrived in Montreal. Educated in the same city, he received his Bachelors of Scince in agriculture from Macdonald College and an M.A. in political economy from McGill University. Throughout his career Layton has been mostra'n més writer-in-residence at several Canadian universities. Easily the most controversial Canadian poet, he was professor of English at Toronto's York University, a post from which he retired in 1978. Layton's verse has been variously described as dazzling, vulgar, sexist, and hyperbolic, yet Layton has always redeemed himself by the integrity with which he approaches his craft. His poetry avoids sentimentality, often centering on decidedly unpoetic, mundane images. Layton is a self-proclaimed "public exhibitionist," and his frank, bawdy verse and antagonist persona have tended to alienate him from both intellectual circles and the general public. Layton has published 40 or so volumes of poetry, some with outrageous titles such as The Gucci Bag (1983), For My Brother Jesus (1976), and Droppings from Heaven (1979). Much of his work is in print, a testament to his continuing popularity, and supports his declaration that the "poet has a public function as a prophet." (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Irving Layton
Music on a Kazoo 2 exemplars
The Long Pea-Shooter 2 exemplars
The blue propeller 2 exemplars
The Black Huntsman 1 exemplars
Where Burning Sappho Loved 1 exemplars
Love Where the Nights Are Long: Canadian Love Poems Selected by Irving Layton Drawings by Harold Town [limited edition] — Editor — 1 exemplars
Keine Lazarovitch, 1870-1959 (included in The Norton Introduction to Literature - 5th Edition) 1 exemplars
52 pickup 76 — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 917 exemplars
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Col·laborador — 447 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Layton, Irving
- Nom oficial
- Layton, Irving Peter
Lazarovitch, Israel Pincu (born) - Data de naixement
- 1912-03-12
- Data de defunció
- 2006-01-04
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Canada
- Lloc de naixement
- Neamt, Romania
- Lloc de defunció
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Llocs de residència
- Montréal, Québec, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Educació
- Baron Byng High School
Macdonald College
McGill University (MA | 1946) - Professions
- poet
Fuller Brush salesman
teacher
professor - Relacions
- Lynch, Faye (wife 1938-1946)
Sutherland, Betty (wife 1946-78)
Layton (Cantor), Aviva (common law spouse 1955-74)
Bernstein, Harriet (wife 1978-1981)
Pottier, Anna [Annette], (wife 1982-95) - Organitzacions
- Young People's Socialist League
Canadian Army (WWII)
York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Premis i honors
- Order of Canada (Officer, 1976)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 54
- També de
- 6
- Membres
- 410
- Popularitat
- #59,368
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 5
- ISBN
- 61
- Llengües
- 1
A lot of literature, stories, poetry and memoirs appeared relatively late during the Twentieth Century, as it took Jewish people to recover from the profound trauma of the war, and European readership collectively repressed that awful period. However, as Layton lived overseas and observed from the side-line, he started publishing from as early as 1945, and, very productively had published more that 40 volumes, when Fortunate exile was published in 1987.
The poems are strong reminders of the holocaust, the pain and suffering of Jewish people.… (més)