Ralph Barker Gustafson

Ralph Barker Gustafson (born Aug. 16, 1909, Lime Ridge, near Sherbrooke, Que., Can.—died May 29, 1995, North Hatley, Que.) was a Canadian poet whose work shows a development from traditional form and manner to an elliptical poetry that reflects the influence of Anglo-Saxon verse and the metrical experiments of the 19th-century British poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. Gustafson earned a B.A. in English language and literature from the University of Oxford and then became a tutor...