Irving Layton is Canada's most prolific and pugnacious poet and has sustained a powerful if not to say domineering position in Canadian letters for over forty-five years. In the nearly fifty books he has published since 1945, Layton has been a writer...

Canadian poets Archibald Lampman and Irving Layton express a similar poetic instinct, despite their outward differences. Their poetic instinct is based on a shared culture. In both poets, the poem begins with observation, moves to thought and then to statement, and the relation between...

[HEADNOTE ] Face to Face [HEADNOTE ] On the challenges facing municipalities [IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH ] Photo [Not Transcribed ] Jack Layton takes issue with the suggestion that Ottawa and the provinces constitute senior levels of government. "Cities were...

In the following essay, Wiens comments on the importance of keeping Layton's critical statements framed by the literary, political, and social context in which they were made. Wiens highlights the people and movements surrounding Layton's comments, particularly those associated with the controversies between the literary magazines Preview and First Statement.

In the following essay, Wiens traces Layton's relationship with Canadian writer Desmond Pacey in their unpublished correspondence spanning nearly two decades. Wiens focuses on Pacey's criticism of and influence on Layton's poetics from the early 1950s to the mid-1970s.

In the following essay, Solecki compares the works of D. H. Lawrence to the works of Layton and poet Al Purdy in the context of Canadian literature.