Irving Layton

Irving Peter Layton, OC (March 12, 1912 – January 4, 2006) was a Romanian-born Canadian poet. ^[1]

112 relations: A. J. M. Smith, A. M. Klein, Agriculture, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Alzheimer's disease, Anti-communism, Baron Byng High School, Blacklisting, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadians, Charles Darwin, Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, Concordia University, David Lewis (politician), David Solway, Donald Sutherland, Dundurn Press, Earle Birney, Eli Mandel, English language, F. R. Scott, Francis Bacon, Freethought, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gabriel García Márquez, George Eliot, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Harold Laski, Hugh Kenner, Italy, Jane Austen, Jews, John Sutherland (Canadian writer), Jonathan Swift, Karl Marx, Leonard Cohen, Literary magazine, Lord Byron, Louis Dudek, Macdonald Campus, Marxism, McGill University, Montreal, Montreal Group, Mordecai Richler, Moses Znaimer, National Film Board of Canada, Nobel Prize in Literature, Northern Review, Northrop Frye, ..., Oliver Goldsmith, Order of Canada, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Petawawa, Poet, Quebec, Raymond Souster, Rebellion, Religious fanaticism, Romania, Ryerson Press, Saint Urbain Street, Samuel Johnson, Sir George Williams University, South Korea, Târgu Neamț, The Canadian Encyclopedia, Toronto, United States, United Talmud Torahs of Montreal, Vietnam War, Walter Scott, William Carlos Williams, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, York University, Young People's Socialist League, Young People's Socialist League (1907), 1945 in poetry, 1948 in poetry, 1951 in poetry, 1952 in poetry, 1953 in poetry, 1954 in poetry, 1955 in poetry, 1956 in poetry, 1958 in poetry, 1959 in poetry, 1961 in poetry, 1963 in poetry, 1964 in poetry, 1965 in poetry, 1967 in poetry, 1968 in poetry, 1969 in poetry, 1970 in poetry, 1971 in poetry, 1973 in poetry, 1974 in poetry, 1975 in poetry, 1976 in poetry, 1977 in poetry, 1978 in poetry, 1979 in poetry, 1980 in poetry, 1981 in poetry, 1982 in poetry, 1983 in poetry, 1984 in poetry, 1986 in poetry, 1987 in poetry, 1992 in poetry. Expand index (62 more) » « Shrink index

A. J. M. Smith

Arthur James Marshall Smith (November 8, 1902 – November 21, 1980) was a Canadian poet and anthologist.

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A. M. Klein

Abraham Moses Klein (14 February 1909 – 20 February 1972) was a Canadian poet, journalist, novelist, short story writer and lawyer.

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Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.

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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.

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Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease (AD), also referred to simply as Alzheimer's, is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and worsens over time.

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Anti-communism

Anti-communism is opposition to communism.

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Baron Byng High School

Baron Byng High School was located at 4251 St. Urbain Street, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Blacklisting

Blacklisting is the action of a group or authority, compiling a blacklist (or black list) of people, countries or other entities to be avoided or distrusted as not being acceptable to those making the list.

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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian federal Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster for both radio and television.

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Canadians

Canadians (Canadiens / Canadiennes) are people identified with the country of Canada.

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Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.

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Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) (Fédération du Commonwealth Coopératif, from 1955 the Parti social démocratique du Canada) was a social-democraticThese sources describe the CCF as a social-democratic political party.

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Concordia University

Concordia University (commonly referred to as Concordia) is a public comprehensive university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on unceded Indigenous lands.

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David Lewis (politician)

David Lewis (born David Losz; June 23, or October 1909 – May 23, 1981) was a Canadian labour lawyer and social democratic politician.

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David Solway

David Solway (born 8 December 1941) is a Canadian poet, educational theorist, travel writer and literary critic of Jewish descent.

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Donald Sutherland

Donald McNichol Sutherland, (born 17 July 1935) is a Canadian actor whose film career spans more than five decades.

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Dundurn Press

Dundurn Press is the largest Canadian-owned book publishing company of adult and children’s fiction and non-fiction in Canada.

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Earle Birney

Earle Alfred Birney, OC, FRSC (13 May 1904 – 3 September 1995) was a distinguished Canadian poet and novelist, who twice won the Governor General's Award, Canada's top literary honor, for his poetry.

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Eli Mandel

Eli Mandel (December 3, 1922 – September 3, 1992) was a Canadian poet, editor of many Canadian anthologies, and literary academic.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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F. R. Scott

Francis Reginald Scott,, commonly known as Frank Scott or F. R. Scott (August 1, 1899 – January 30, 1985), was a Canadian poet, intellectual and constitutional expert.

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Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, (22 January 15619 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author.

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Freethought

Freethought (or "free thought") is a philosophical viewpoint which holds that positions regarding truth should be formed on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism, rather than authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist and a Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history.

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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America.

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George Eliot

Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Ann" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

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Halifax, Nova Scotia

Halifax, officially known as the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), is the capital of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.

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Harold Laski

Harold Joseph Laski (30 June 1893 – 24 March 1950) was a British political theorist, economist, author, and lecturer.

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Hugh Kenner

William Hugh Kenner (January 7, 1923 – November 24, 2003) was a Canadian literary scholar, critic and professor.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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John Sutherland (Canadian writer)

John Sutherland (21 February 1919 – 1 September 1956) was a Canadian poet, literary critic, and magazine editor based in Montreal, Quebec.

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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.

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Karl Marx

Karl MarxThe name "Karl Heinrich Marx", used in various lexicons, is based on an error.

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Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist.

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Literary magazine

A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense.

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Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known as Lord Byron, was an English nobleman, poet, peer, politician, and leading figure in the Romantic movement.

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Louis Dudek

Louis Dudek, (February 6, 1918 – March 23, 2001) was a Canadian poet, academic, and publisher known for his role in defining Modernism in poetry, and for his literary criticism.

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Macdonald Campus

The Macdonald Campus of McGill University (commonly referred to as the "Mac Campus" or simply "Mac") houses its Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, Institute of Parasitology and the McGill School of Environment.

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Marxism

Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that views class relations and social conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectical view of social transformation.

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McGill University

McGill University is a public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Montreal

Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.

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Montreal Group

The Montreal Group was a circle of Canadian modernist writers formed in the mid-1920s at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, which included Leon Edel, John Glassco, A. M. Klein, Leo Kennedy, F. R. Scott, and A. J. M. Smith.

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Mordecai Richler

Mordecai Richler, CC (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian writer.

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Moses Znaimer

Moses Znaimer, (born 1942) is a co-founder and former head of City, the first independent television station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and the current head of ZoomerMedia.

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National Film Board of Canada

The National Film Board of Canada (or simply National Film Board or NFB) (French: Office national du film du Canada, or ONF) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor.

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Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that has been awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" (original Swedish: "den som inom litteraturen har producerat det mest framstående verket i en idealisk riktning").

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Northern Review

Northern Review was a Montreal-based literary magazine published in Canada between 1945 and 1956.

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Northrop Frye

Herman Northrop Frye (July 14, 1912 – January 23, 1991) was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century.

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Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773).

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Order of Canada

The Order of Canada (Ordre du Canada) is a Canadian national order and the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 17928 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric and philosophical poets in the English language, and one of the most influential.

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Petawawa

Petawawa is a town located in eastern portion of Southern Ontario.

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Poet

A poet is a person who creates poetry.

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Quebec

Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.

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Raymond Souster

Raymond Holmes Souster, OC (January 15, 1921 – October 19, 2012) was a Canadian poet whose writing career spanned over 70 years.

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Rebellion

Rebellion, uprising, or insurrection is a refusal of obedience or order.

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Religious fanaticism

Religious fanaticism is uncritical zeal or with an obsessive enthusiasm related to one's own, or one's group's, devotion to a religion – a form of human fanaticism which could otherwise be expressed in one's other involvements and participation, including employment, role, and partisan affinities.

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Romania

Romania (România) is a sovereign state located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe.

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Ryerson Press

Ryerson Press was a Canadian book publishing company, active from 1919 to 1970.

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Saint Urbain Street

Saint Urbain Street (rue Saint-Urbain) is a major one-way street located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson LL.D. (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr.

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Sir George Williams University

Sir George Williams University is a former university that was located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (대한민국; Hanja: 大韓民國; Daehan Minguk,; lit. "The Great Country of the Han People"), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and lying east to the Asian mainland.

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Târgu Neamț

Târgu Neamț (Niamtz, Németvásár, נאמץ טרגו, Ante Castrum Nempch) is a town in Neamț County, Romania, on the Neamț River.

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The Canadian Encyclopedia

The Canadian Encyclopedia (abbreviated as TCE) is a source of information on Canada published by Historica Canada of Toronto.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United Talmud Torahs of Montreal

United Talmud Torahs of Montreal (בתי תלמוד תורה) is a private coed Jewish day school system that includes an elementary (United Talmud Torah) and a high school (Herzliah High School), located in the Snowdon neighbourhood of the Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough in Montreal, Quebec.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, poet and historian.

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William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

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York University

York University (Université York) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Young People's Socialist League

The Young People's Socialist League (YPSL), founded in 1989, is the official youth arm of the Socialist Party USA.

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Young People's Socialist League (1907)

The Young People's Socialist League (YPSL), founded in 1907, was the official youth arm of the Socialist Party of America.

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