writing in canada: authors: a.j.m. smith

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Arthur James Marshall Smith

1902 - 1980

works by

poetry

collections of essays

anthologies

The Book of Canadian Poetry: A Critical and Historical Anthology (1st ed. 1943, 2nd ed. 1948, 3rd ed. 1957)
The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse: In English and French (1960)
Modern Canadian Verse (1967)
The Blasted Pine: An Anthology of Satire, Invective and Disrespectful Verse Chiefly By Canadian Writers (1957; rev. 1967)
Masks of Poetry: Canadian Critics On Canadian Verse (1962)
The Book Of Canadian Prose, Volume 1: Early Beginnings to Confederation (1965)
The Book of Canadian Prose, Volume 2: The Canadian Century: English-Canadian Writing Since Confederation (1973)
The Canadian Experience: A Brief Survey of English-Canadian Prose (1974)
The Worldly Muse (1951)
Seven Centuries of Verse (1947; 3rd ed. 1966)
100 Poems (1965)
Essays For College Writing (1965)
Exploring Poetry, with M.L. Rosenthal (1955; 2nd ed. 1973)

works on

M.L. Rosenthal, "Poor Innocent: The Poetry of A.J.M. Smith," Modern Poetry Studies, 8 (1977):1-13 (reprinted as intro. to The Classic Shade)
Sandra A. Djwa, "A.J.M. Smith: Of Metaphysics and Dry Bones," Studies in Canadian Literature, 3 (1978):17-34
Leon Edel, "The Worldly Muse of A.J.M. Smith," University of Toronto Quarterly, 47 (1978):200-213
John Ferns, A.J.M. Smith (1979)
Michael E. Darling, A.J.M. Smith: An Annotated Bibliography (1981)
Canadian Poetry, Issue II (Fall/Winter 1982) is devoted to A.J.M. Smith

awards

resources

Not of Things Only, but of Thought: Notes on A. J. M. Smith's Imagistic Poems: essay by D.M.R. Bentley from Canadian Poetry
An Interview with A.J.M. Smith: by Michael Heenan from Canadian Poetry

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