McGill Fortnightly Review

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McGill Fortnightly Review

Canadian literary magazine

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A.J.M. Smith
…Smith founded and edited the McGill Fortnightly Review (1925–27), the first literary magazine dedicated to freeing Canadian literature from artificial forms and narrow provincialism. He encouraged other young Canadian writers to become cosmopolitan in their outlook, to set high literary standards, and to study the poetry of T.S. Eliot and…
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…Smith founded and edited the McGill Fortnightly Review (1925–27), the first literary magazine dedicated to freeing Canadian literature from artificial forms and narrow provincialism. He encouraged other young Canadian writers to become cosmopolitan in their outlook, to set high literary standards, and to study the poetry of T.S. Eliot and…
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Canadian literature
Modern period, 1900–60
…1936 to 1940, and Montreal’s McGill Fortnightly Review (1925–27) provided an outlet for the “new poetry” and the emergence of Modernism. Here and in their anthology New Provinces (1936), A.J.M. Smith, F.R. Scott, and A.M. Klein began their long literary careers. Emphasizing concrete
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…1936 to 1940, and Montreal’s McGill Fortnightly Review (1925–27) provided an outlet for the “new poetry” and the emergence of Modernism. Here and in their anthology New Provinces (1936), A.J.M. Smith, F.R. Scott, and A.M. Klein began their long literary careers. Emphasizing concrete
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