Book Description
Louis Dudek has been a poet, critic, teacher, modernist theoretician, editor, and publisher. His contribution to Canadian literature has been essential--Dudek is Canada's "first man of letters" as Wynne Francis so aptly puts it. Paradise includes essays on Nabokov's Pale Fire, the literary quarrel between Morley Callaghan and John Glassco, the idea of art, the poetry and prose of R.J. MacSween, the poetry of Ken Norris, and a major essay on myth (which was the 1991 F.R. Scott Lecture at McGill University). It is vintage Dudek--analytical, controversial, lyrical, intelligent, and never boring.

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Louis Dudek has been a poet, critic, teacher, modernist theoretician, editor, and publisher. His contribution to Canadian literature has been essential-Dudek is Canada's "first man of letters" as Wynne Francis so aptly puts it.