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Louis Dudek has been a pioneer in Canadian small-press publishing and a major influence on the development of the Canadian long poem. He was born in Montreal on 6 February 1918 to parents (Vincent and...
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Critical Essay by Northrop Frye
Mr. Dudek is introverted and emotional: what takes fresh and novel shape in his poetry is a sensuous reaction. In The Transparent Sea …, a retrospective collecti...
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Critical Essay by Dorothy Livesay
["Functional Poetry: A Proposal"] establishes Dudek as the contemporary Canadian poet most consciously concerned with shape, form and sound: the origins...
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Critical Essay by Paul Denham
At first sight, Louis Dudek's long poem Atlantis appears to be a re-working of the material of his earlier volume Europe (1953), since the imagery and structure of...
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Critical Essay by Douglas Barbour
What struck me … as I read through [Dudek's Collected Poetry] was the way in which certain approaches to subject matter, certain ways of articulating wh...
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Critical Essay by E. K. Brown
In East of the City the themes are almost the same as those that preoccupied [Mr. Louis Dudek in Unit of Five]. Mr. Dudek is sensitive to the surfaces of things and of pe...
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Critical Essay by Northrop Frye
[Twenty-four Poems] evidently is a sequence of impressions, one for each hour of the day: at any rate the first poem is called "Dawn" and the twelfth �...
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Critical Essay by Northrop Frye
Louis Dudek's Europe … is diary poetry: a sequence of ninety-nine short pieces recounting impressions of a trip to Europe, from England through France, Sp...
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Critical Essay by Saturday Night
Since Mr. Dudek professes himself to be inured to misunderstanding and lack of appreciation from the Canadian public, it will come as no surprise to him to hear that a...
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Critical Essay by Northrop Frye
Louis Dudek's En México … is a long fragmented poem, less ambitious than Europe, but in my opinion more successful and better unified. It gets away...
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Critical Essay by Wynne Francis
For [Louis] Dudek, as for [Matthew] Arnold, poetry is a serious search for moral truth…. Arnold could say "For poetry the idea is everything … poet...
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Critical Essay by W. J. Keith
Until recently, Dudek's contribution to the Canadian literary scene has seemed a little blurred. Because his poetry wasn't represented in Milton Wilson�...
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Louis Dudek
Critical Essay by Northrop Frye
