Montreal group

Montreal group

      coterie of poets who precipitated a renaissance of Canadian poetry during the 1920s and '30s by advocating a break with the traditional picturesque landscape poetry that had dominated Canadian poetry since the late 19th century. They encouraged an emulation of the realistic themes, metaphysical complexity, and techniques of the U.S. and British poets Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and W.H. Auden that resulted in an Expressionist (Expressionism), Modernist, and often Imagist poetry reflective of the values of an urban and cosmopolitan civilization. Based in Montreal, the group included A.M. Klein (Klein, A.M.); A.J.M. Smith (Smith, A.J.M.), whose Book of Canadian Poetry (1943) and other anthologies contributed greatly to the modernization of literary standards in Canada; Leo Kennedy; and Francis Reginald Scott; (Scott, Francis Reginald) as well as two kindred spirits from Toronto, E.J. Pratt (Pratt, E.J.) and Robert Finch (Finch, Robert). First brought together at McGill University in Montreal, these poets founded the Canadian Mercury (1928–29), a literary organ for young writers, and subsequently founded, edited, and wrote for a number of other influential journals—e.g., the McGill Fortnightly Review and Canadian Forum.

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