A. M. Klein (1909-1972), journalist and lawyer, was widely regarded as one of Canada's leading poets. His novel The Second Scroll has been acclaimed by scholars and critics as a masterpiece. He contri...
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Abraham Moses Klein, born of immigrant parents, Colman and Yetta Morantz Klein, in 1909, was brought up in Montreal and, except for the year 1937-1938 spent practicing law in Rouyn, Quebec, lived his ...
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Critical Essay by Miriam Waddington
[In recent discussions of Klein's work, his radical poems] have either been ignored or else dismissed as having no literary value. On the whole they have be...
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Critical Essay by Sidney J. Stephen
["Portrait of the Poet as Landscape,"] coming as it does after nearly twenty years of writing and publishing poetry, appears to present a view on wha...
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Critical Essay by F. W. Watt
Klein's best poetry did, evidently, get into his [earlier] books. The lesser work [also included in The Collected Poems of A. M. Klein] is interesting, especially ...
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Critical Essay by M. W. Steinberg
Klein is a product of three rich and distinct traditions, all of which formed his mind and imagination, determined his response to time past and present, to place, a...
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Critical Essay by William Walsh
"The poetry of Abraham Moses Klein springs from the roots of a consciousness where Hebrew and legal lore have become strangely and exotically intermingled with ...
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Critical Essay by Zailig Pollock
In "Political Meeting" A. M. Klein describes an orator addressing an anti-conscription rally in Quebec. The Orator, we are told, is "a country un...
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Abraham Moses Klein
A(braham) M(oses) Klein
Critical Essay by Miriam Waddington
