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	Earle Birney: A Life by Ian Adam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		And Birney's active pre-marital love life continues in a series of affairs (with two sometimes being juggled at once) after his 1935 union with Esther Bull Heiger (they marry in 1940) and until his 1973 union with Wailan Low.
		That hunger must have both enhanced and complicated the biographer's task: enhanced in that Birney carefully preserved much material pertaining to his life and complicated in that such self-construction entails omissions and loading of evidence as well as inclusions.
		Cameron notes this in several places; she is not persuaded, for example, by Birney's account of his youthful idealistic motives for seeking the job of cub reporter on the campus paper, The Ubyssey.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/651/birney38.html (604 words)

	Birney, Alfred Earle
		Birney, Alfred Earle, poet (b at Calgary 13 May 1904; d at Toronto, Ont 3 Sept 1995).
		His poems reveal his constant concern to render his encyclopedic experience - be it of Canada's geographical or cultural reaches, of nature, of travels or of the trials of love by time - into a language marvellously dexterous and supple, always seriously at play.
		Birney has also had an important career as a teacher of creative writing and literature, and as a playwright, novelist and editor.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0000778 (319 words)

	Earle Birney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		UBC Archives: Earle Birney Description of the fonds and a brief biography.
		Canadian Literary Archives: Earle Birney Description of the collection which is held at the University of Calgary.
		Birney and Gillespie Family history of J Birney including surnames Bricker, Coulter, Elliott, Beatty, McCullough, Law, Layport, Holmes and Palmer.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Earle_Birney.html (203 words)

	David By Earle Birney
		By Earle Birney A generation of Canadian schoolchildren and university students has grown up knowing the story of a mountain climber who fell 50 feet to a narrow ledge, was badly injured, then pushed off the ledge to his death by his friend in an act of mercy.
		Birney is sick of the subject of David, and since I've known him for some 20 years, I have some idea of his feelings.
		Earle Birney was born in a log cabin on the banks of the
	www.instant-essays.com /english_literature/david-by-earle-birney.shtml (2261 words)

	laybir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Birney and Layton establish this relationship in three similar ways : by using vocabulary which demands attention to physical details; by choosing terms which directly oppose one another, creating a dictional irony or paradox which can then be remedied by the epiphany; and by employing verbs which affirm the spontaneity of the moment of realization.
		Birney, in a romantic spirit which Layton would have likely despised, is exposing the myth alive in physical creatures ; this revelation is accomplished by carefully exploring the interplay of physical and mythical properties of diction, as exemplified in the double uses of "tall", "myth", "bear" and "locust".
		Birney may in fact have been warning Canadians that treating the quiet revolution with the kind of indifference that would greet a revolution of plants was a grave error.
	individual.utoronto.ca /tdotrun/laybir.htm (3012 words)

	Purging the Fearful Ghosts if Separateness: A Study of Earle Birney's Revisions
		Birney, however, is liable to draw the anger of a reader who suddenly finds, after enduring the poet's bitter castigation, that he has been given no avenue through which to change the situation.
		That Birney allows this confusion to arise, between the poet's stance and the results it is intended to achieve, indicates that he does not fully understand the implications of the events described.
		Birney does not forget what man has done to her but the emphasis lies on what she is, or has been, rather than on man's destructiveness.
	www.canadianpoetry.ca /cpjrn/vol09/steven.htm (6050 words)

	Birney, James Gillespie - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Birney, James Gillespie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The son of rich slaveholders, Birney himself was an abolitionist.
		Birney ran for president as the anti-slavery candidate in 1840 and 1844.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Birney%2c+James+Gillespie (106 words)

	College Papers-By Earle Birney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Birney is 15 years older than I am, and he's leaving the country for London, Paris, Cairo, Bangkok, Singapore and Australia - with a zest for all the onrushing strangeness of other countries and the friends there he will see again.
		Earle Birney was born in a log cabin on the banks of the Bow River in Calgary in 1904.
		After-images of the men and the bear pursued Birney for 14 months, along with guilt feelings of being a comparatively wealthy Western tourist in a country where poverty is the norm and people live in hovels.
	college-papers.org /free_essays/english/david-by-earle-birneymnn.html (2212 words)

	123Student
		Birney uses the roasting of the porcupine bellies as a symbol of his facing the difficult situations that faced him in stride.
		Earle Birney leaves us in the last stanza on the note, " And now he could only bar himself in and wait." All our character can do is see his dreams shatter so he can start over again.
		One strange thing about Birney’s style is his lack of structure one can only wonder if it is to bring more attention to the meaning of the poem in contrast to it’s structure or just a coincidence.
	www.123student.com /english/1770.shtml (478 words)

	Young Poets
		Earle Birney (1904-1995) was born in Calgary and raised in the mountain country near Banff and Creston.
		In the 1960's, Birney moved beyond the early poems to explore his love of language, inspired by the experimental poets like bill bissett and BP nichol, to liberate spelling and grammar, to resist closure, to play with sound and pattern.
		Earle Birney died in 1995 at the age of 91.
	www.youngpoets.ca /history/history8.php (2482 words)

	100 Canadian Poets - Earle Birney - Profile
		Earle Birney (Alfred Earle Birney) was born in Calgary, Alberta, in 1904.
		Birney went to school at the University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, Berkeley and University of London.
		Birney won the Governor General's Literary Award in the poetry category in 1942 for David and other poems, and again in 1945 for Now Is Time.
	www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/poet/e_birney.htm (356 words)

	UBC Archives - Earle Birney - Description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Born in Calgary, Alberta, Earle Birney (1904-1995) was educated at Universities of British Columbia, Toronto and California.
		Birney became writer in residence at Scarborough College in 1965.
		It was not possible to arrange the sheets as first draft and revised texts because in many cases Birney used the backs of the first draft sheets for his later revisions and many first draft sheets are missing.
	www.library.ubc.ca /spcoll/ubc_arch/u_arch/earlbir.html (334 words)

	Hungarian Studies Review, 1999
		Since the act of rendering a Hungarian poem into English in Canada, for example, is a cultural act, it is also an invitation to consider influences, and compare two separate though, we anticipate, complementary poems: the poem written in the original language, and the poem written in the language of the translator.
		Moreover, she and Birney could work together; he, too, was a socialist, having joined the International Left Opposition when he was a Ph.D. student in English at the University of Toronto in the early thirties.
		Finally the Canadian poet-member of the triangle, Earle Birney, born in 1904, told me in 1988 that he was still interested in his soul-mate, the great Attila József.
	www.oszk.hu /kiadvany/hsr/1999/kadar.htm (2711 words)

	From the Hazel Bough of Yeats: Birney's Masterpiece
		The two readers that evening were Earle Birney and Ralph Gustafson, and after they had finished their readings, the student beside me asked Gustafson the question I thought was so naive.
		Birney’s revisions of the later editions of “From the Hazel Bough”—his changing the “He” to “I” and “they” to “we” (“I met a lady”)—shifts our attention to the overshadowed other subject of the poem: not the lady, but the persona; not Canada, but the Canadian.
		Birney’s and Yeats’s imagery is similar to that of Seamus Heaney’s two recent aislings, “A Hazel Stick for Catherine Ann” and “An Aisling in the Burren”, in Station Island (London: Faber, 1984), 42, 47.
	www.uwo.ca /english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol21/latham.htm (2575 words)

	Vancouver Lights Summary
		The only child of farmers Will Birney and Martha Robertson, Earle Birney was born May 13, 1904, in Calgary, located in the foothills of Alberta, when it was a part of the Northwest Territories.
		Birney's political awakening came shortly afterwards, while he was a graduate student at the University ofToronto.
		In Toronto, Birney steeped himself in political philosophy, particularly the writings of Marx and Trotsky, and by the time he graduated was a self-proclaimed socialist.
	www.bookrags.com /guides/vancouverlights/bio.htm (214 words)

	Studies in Canadian Literature
		Earle Birney was the first Canadian poet to make prominent use of visual techniques in his poetry.
		Earle Birney has been intimately connected with the Canada Council since its inception, both as a recipient and as an adjudicator of awards.
		Birney's "like an eddy" reads "like an eddy my words turn about your bright rock." By handwriting the poem, Birney is able to join all the words in order to recreate the continuous "eddy"-like effect of the swirling water.
	www.lib.unb.ca /Texts/SCL/bin/get.cgi?directory=vol2_2/&filename=david.htm (3212 words)

	Birney, Alfred Earle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Birney received a PhD from the University of Toronto in 1938.
		After serving as a personnel officer during World War II, he became a professor of medieval literature at the University of British Columbia.
		Two collections by Birney won the GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD for poetry: David and Other Poems (1942) and Now Is Time (1945).
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	Humbul Record : The Earle Birney website
		This site about Earle Birney, the famous Canadian writer, created by The University College of the Cariboo, is aimed at students in a Further Education context as well as being useful for undergraduate and postgraduate students.
		Earle Birney was a prolific poet and novelist as well as playing an important role in founding creative writing courses in Canada, and making a serious impact as a poetry critic.
		The site is intended not only as a resource for teachers of Birney's work, but as a starting point to becoming creatively involved with his poems.
	www.humbul.ac.uk /output/full3.php?id=4440 (295 words)

	Vancouver Lights Summary & Essays - Earle Birney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The collection launched Birney's career as a poet and the book received the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 1942, the most prestigious award given for poetry in Canada.
		Birney read the poem on a CBC radio program on Canadian poetry in early February 1943.
		Birney's grammatical inversions, frequently abstract allusions, and at times impossible to grasp associations require multiple readings before meaning coheres.
	www.enotes.com /vancouver-lights (324 words)

	ABCBookWorld
		I heard that Birney was teaching at UBC, and wrote to him, and in June 1949 he came over on a special trip to visit me in the wretched trailer on even more wretched land that we then inhabited.
		Earle was always interested in new writers arriving (in this respect he was a very tribal man) but he showed another reason for interest in me when he pulled out of his pocket the copy of my book of poems, The Centre Cannot Hold, which a woman we both knew had given him in England.
		Despite his palpable charm on most occasions, Earle could be very curmudgeonly when he was crossed, (as Al Purdy remembers in his introduction to Last Makings), and for a while my nervous refusal seemed to have spoilt our friendship.
	www.abcbookworld.com /?state=view_author&author_id=7132 (993 words)

	Birney, Earle -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The works of versatile Canadian writer Earle Birney—especially his poetry—reveal a deep and abiding love of language.
		Birney also had a long career as an educator.
		Some authorities say L.B. Earle and his brother B.D. Earle originated the idea; they carried express messages under their beaver hats between Boston and New York in 1835.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9112009?tocId=9112009 (659 words)

	UBC Archives - Esther Birney - Description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Esther Birney (nee Bull) was born in 1908 in London, England where she was active in a Trotskyist group.
		She met Earle Birney in London while he studied at the University of London (1935/36) and returned to Canada with him and they were married in 1940.
		She and Earle Birney were divorced in 1977.
	www.library.ubc.ca /archives/u_arch/estbirn.html (145 words)

	Earle Birney ; Down the Long Table, Earle Thomas - Greener Pastures : The Loyalist Experience of Benjamin Ingraham,
		Earle Birney ; Down the Long Table, Earle Thomas - Greener Pastures : The Loyalist Experience of Benjamin Ingraham,
		Earle Thomas - Greener Pastures : The Loyalist Experience of Benjamin Ingraham
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	Faculty of Arts Department Funds - Supporting UBC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Earle Birney was responsible for establishing this department, in which he would also teach.
		UBC was the first university to offer a credit course in creative writing, and Birney was one of Canada's best and best-known poets, long recognized as a pioneer in modern Canadian writing.
		In recognition of Birney's great achievements, an award of $3,500 was established in his honour.
	www.supporting.ubc.ca /faculties/arts/current/depts.html (1709 words)

	Earle Birney - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Earle Birney - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Earle Alfred Birney (May 13, 1904 – September 3, 1995) was a distinguished Canadian poet and twice winner of the Governor General's Award for Literature (for David, 1942, and for Now Is Time, 1945).
		The article about Earle Birney contains information related to Earle Birney.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Earle_Birney (162 words)

	Directory - Arts: Literature: World Literature: Canadian: Poetry: Poets: Birney, Earle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Canadian Literary Archives: Earle Birney · cached · Description of the collection which is held at the University of Calgary.
		Canadian Poets: Earle Birney · cached · Biography, poems, and published works.
		The Canadian Encyclopedia: Alfred Earle Birney · iweb · cached · Biography and picture of the poet.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=67642 (112 words)

	Earle Birney - HOME PAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Twice a recipient of the Governor General's Award for literature, Earle Birney is one of Canada's finest writers.
		As you explore the site, you'll discover a digital archive and multimedia display: a brief biography and selected bibliography, manuscript drafts of one of Birney's most famous poems, stories and opinions about Birney, an interactive quiz, and so much more.
		Personne ne sait exactement ce qu'Earle Birney aurait pensé d'un tel site mettant en valeur son oeuvre mais nous nous plaisons à penser qu'il verrait ce projet comme un éloge, axé comme l'ensemble de son travail, sur l'expérimentation créative et des présentations hors du commun.
	www.cariboo.bc.ca /ae/e_birney/home.htm (319 words)

	ABCBookWorld
		An egocentric poet, Birney tried to undermine the new Head, sometimes with success, spreading rumours he was a homosexual.
		The sometimes bitter rivalry between Birney and Daniells was documented in Sandra Djwa’s Professing English: A Life of Roy Daniells (University of Toronto Press, 2002) and it was touched upon in Djwa's published address called Professing English at UBC: The Legacy of Roy Daniells and Garnett Sedgewick (Ronsdale, 2000).
		He headed the committee that hired George Woodcock to serve as the first editor of Canadian Literature and laid the groundwork for UBC's Creative Writing Department, for which Earle Birney is generally accorded most of the credit.
	www.abcbookworld.com /?state=view_author&author_id=2002 (550 words)

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