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Articles

Volume 03, Number 1 (1978)

A.J.M. Smith: Of Metaphysics and Dry Bones

  • Sandra A. Djwa
Submitted
May 22, 2008
Published
1978-01-01

Abstract

Although A.J.M. Smith was the most accomplished poet publishing in Canada from 1924 to the mid-forties, the extraordinary versatility of Smith the metaphysical, the lyricist, the tender ironist, the social satirist, and the translator has not been generally recognized. Smith himself has been characterized as being apart from mainstream Canadian poetry, a "cosmopolitan" rather than "native" poet; and academic, intellectual poet out of touch with contemporary social reality. As a critic of his own poetry, Smith has always discouraged the identification of poet and persona.