George Woodcock is one of Canada's foremost men of letters and the possessor of three distinct reputations. Canadians know him as a literary and social critic, radio dramatist, and editor of the critical quarterly Canadian Literature, from its...

George Woodcock was the principal authority on Canadian literature and a leading authority on anarchism, though he always thought of himself primarily as a poet. He divided his life between two worlds. Although he was born in Canada, in 1912, his Anglo-Welsh parents...

The correspondence between Kenneth Rexroth and anarchists Herbert Read (1893-1968) and George Woodcock (1912-95) was an outgrowth of shared values. All three were prominent figures in the literary wing of the anarchist movement that had dissented against World War Two. After the war,...