Irving Layton (1912–2006)
Autore di A Wild Peculiar Joy
Sull'Autore
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 altro 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 meno
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Opere di Irving Layton
Music on a Kazoo 2 copie
The Long Pea-Shooter 2 copie
The blue propeller 2 copie
The Black Huntsman 1 copia
Where Burning Sappho Loved 1 copia
Love Where the Nights Are Long: Canadian Love Poems Selected by Irving Layton Drawings by Harold Town [limited edition] — A cura di — 1 copia
Keine Lazarovitch, 1870-1959 (included in The Norton Introduction to Literature - 5th Edition) 1 copia
52 pickup 76 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Opere correlate
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 915 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Layton, Irving
- Nome legale
- Layton, Irving Peter
Lazarovitch, Israel Pincu (born) - Data di nascita
- 1912-03-12
- Data di morte
- 2006-01-04
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Canada
- Luogo di nascita
- Neamt, Romania
- Luogo di morte
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Luogo di residenza
- Montréal, Québec, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Istruzione
- Baron Byng High School
Macdonald College
McGill University (MA | 1946) - Attività lavorative
- poet
Fuller Brush salesman
teacher
professor - Relazioni
- 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) - Organizzazioni
- Young People's Socialist League
Canadian Army (WWII)
York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Order of Canada (Officer, 1976)
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 54
- Opere correlate
- 6
- Utenti
- 410
- Popolarità
- #59,368
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 61
- Lingue
- 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.… (altro)