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THE OSHAWA TIMES, Pridey, April 28, 1961 9: Canadian Poetry | | | 'Golden Voice' By ALEXANDER FARRELL |Cahadian poetry lies with the Cangdian Press Staff Writer [first two sch r Jharny the LENNOXVILLE, Que, (CP)--|COmMmon purpose of trying "to If English-Canadian poetry has Hage their Joetey out of the ever had a olden age, it is with| ife around : us now and it began in the] The Academics, such as 1050s, . James Reaney and Jay Mac. This is the opinion expressed by two men who make it their business to scan the nooks and crannies of the Canadian liter- ary scene. consciously literary and coy." Prof. Desmond Pacey of the| Miss Macpherson's The Boat- University of New Brunswick|man was, next to Layton's Red and Ralph Gustafson, a Cana.|Carpet, the "most exciting sin- dian poet and anthologist now gle book of verse in the dec: living in-New York, expounded|ade" but her poems were bur- the view in a seminar held at|dened by "'enough mythological Bishop's University here. references and cross-references Mr. Gustafson said that al-|t0 Sink a ship, : though no major genius] On the dark side, Mr. Gus- emerged, "Canada in the 1950s|tafson said the new popular at. produced enough distinguished titude seems to be that if there poetry to fill an anthology that|is anything noticeably Canadian would equal any of today any-|abouta poem, it is mot good where," poetry. It would be necessary to go| This was the reverse of the back 70 years--to the time of|old "colonial" attitude that any- Archibald Lampman, Bliss Car-|thing Canadian must be praised man, Sir Charles G. D, Roberts|and "it has taken us 90 years to and Duncan Campbell Scott--to|get over that mistake." find a period of poetical wealth| It should be stressed, he said, to equal the 1950s. But "the|"that a good poem is never a {poetry of the 1950s is superior|bad one, even if it was only --more original, less deriva-\ made possible by the CBC, the tive. . ' Canada Council or a literary Prof. Pacey said the decade|agsociation's tea party." [brought a new generation ofl p.¢ pacey deplored the fact poets to the fore, of which the dominant figure is Irving Lay- that many of Je vider poets, 'as often "too self- REBELS AT RADIO STATION ¥wo rebel paratroopers are the French military junta took nesday by forces supporting Williams University. P try into three schools: 1. The He said Layton's "A Red Car- pet for the Sun," published in 1959, was probably the best sin- : gle Anis of a in English centrated on other literagy ton of Montreal's Sir George|gooy A WM. Klein, Alfred Bai. ley, Charles Bruce and Ronald Hambleton, "lapsed into si- lence" during the 1950s or con- forms. i Turning to the novel, Prof, published anywhere in th world during the decade. Prof. Pacey divided contem- Pacey said the situation is one orary English - Canadian poe- of less achievement and less promise. President de Gaulle. Montreal School, led by Layton;| "Whereas there are almost 50 control of the station. The four- shown standing outside Algiers radio station Saturday when day revolt was crushed Wed- (AP Wirephoto via radio from Algiers.) Reversible Bills His bill is issued for a mythi- cal country, called Cadana, by the Bank of Cadana. It has both English and French wording. 2. The Fiddlehead School, group of regular contributors to a|poets who demand and deserve serious reading, there are less the literary revue of that name|than a dozen novelists who even published by the press in Fredericton; 3. Academics, a group addicted to university aspire to anything beyond light The| entertainment." Hugh MacLenpan, he said, has shown himself to better ad- mythology and writing under vantage in his essays, which 1 had 1,500 copies of the de- fhe influence of literary critic have "a spontaneity and verve sign printed," said Mr. La-" gg gaiq the future of English- Singuizely lacking in his nov- flamme. Is Morley Callaghan was also a By ROBERT RICE there really is not top or 8 I og ry Rs Tunnel To Aid novelist wi was better at Canadian Press Staff Writer ool bottom: halt of 'the bill i |worth of his money--printed in . ' BO ; OTTAWA (CP)--An ingenious an upside-down version of toEreen or yellow, take your Driver ] Nerves 'His gift is for detached mo- p ist I flooded MP {choice ments of insight into character harma as floode: s, 3 | , senators, bank presidents and top. Hence it is always right yo wants 'their support in a CHINA BAR, B.C. 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