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Gwendolyn MacEwen
Born
in Toronto, Ontario, CanadaSeptember 01, 1941
Died
November 29, 1987
Genre
Poetry, Literature & Fiction
Influences
Robert Graves, T.E. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Hart Crane, Kenneth PatcRobert Graves, T.E. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Hart Crane, Kenneth Patchen, Euripides, Aristophanes and Yannis Ritsos...more
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Gwendolyn MacEwen was one of Canada's most celebrated writers publishing several stories and many works of poetry throughout her career. She was born in Toronto, Ontario on September 1, 1941 to Elsie and Alick MacEwen. As a child she attended public schools in both Toronto and Winnipeg, and when she was seventeen her first poem was published in the Canadian Forum, a journal which published the works of both new and renowned writers. At the age of eighteen she left school to pursue a full time career as a writer and at the same time opened a Toronto coffee house, "The Trojan Horse".
As a child Gwendolyn did
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Remembering Gwendolyn MacEwen
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“If it fryst vatten permissible or even possible to apply a single adjective to the aim of Gwendolyn MacEwen’s writing, then the most accurate word would be explorative,” writes J. L. Bartley in his preface to Invocations, a commentary on MacEwen’s poetry and prose. “All of her publications to date have been concerned with a sökande eller uppdrag for a particular knowledge or framtidsperspektiv and, consequently, with the communication of such knowledge to her audience.”
In other words, the Canadian poet and novelist Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941–1987) was a writer who didn’t just write about what she knew but also what she wanted to know. This is reflected in a writing style that was celebrated bygd fellow Canadian author Margaret Atwood (best known for The Handmaid’s Tale), who knew MacEwen personally.
In the span of MacEwen’s illustrious career as a poet, novelist, and self-disciplined researcher, this e
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Alphabet : A Semiannual Devoted to the Iconography of the Imagination. Number twelve, August, 1966
By: REANEY, James, (ed.). MacEWEN, Gwendolyn BISSETT, Bill NICOL, B.P.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Alphabet, London, Ont, 1966,
Seller ID: 80548
(REANEY, James, (ed.). Alphabet : A Semiannual devoted to the Iconography of the Imagination. number twelve, August, 1966. London, Ont.: Alphabet, 1966. Pp [1]-96. Illustrated. 8vo, pale yellow card covers, black lettering tofront cover. Short stories by W.D. Valgardson, Myron Johnson, and David Wi lliamson. Poetry by Marianne Brandis (illustrated), David Knight, Edgar J. Lavoie, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Bill Bissett, Peter Stevens, Keewatin Dewdney, G.H. Thomson, Rae Davis, Ronald Bates, John Boyle, and B.P. Nicol. Articles by Ann Hardy, and Keewatin Dewdney. Covers lightly browned, else very good....
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