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	George Woodcock page: anarchist, poet, literary critic; from the Daily Bleed's Anarchist Encyclopedia: A Gallery of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		George Woodcock was born May 8, 1912, in Winnipeg, Canada.
		Woodcock taught at the University of Washington in Seattle, & the University of British Columbia.
		Throughout his long life, George Woodcock stressed the primacy of the moral over the political & steadfastly defended the natural human tendency to rebel against artificial restraints.
	recollectionbooks.com /bleed/Encyclopedia/WoodcockGeorge.htm (351 words)

	George Woodcock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Woodcock (May 8, 1912 - January 28, 1995) was a prolific Canadian writer of poetry, essays, criticism, biographies and historical works.
		Woodcock was born in Winnipeg, but moved with his parents to England at an early age.
		Woodcock was honoured with several awards, including a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada in 1968, the UBC Medal for Popular Biography in 1973 and 1976 and the Molson Prize in 1973.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Woodcock (487 words)

	Obituary : George Woodcock - Anarchist writer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Woodcock, like most of his contemporaries - George Orwell and Herbert Read among others - sought to raise awareness of the revolution in Spain and of what was being achieved by the Spanish working class against great odds.
		Reflecting on the period in which he had lived, Woodcock saw the passing of anarchism as a mass working class force as an irreversible feature of modern political life.
		Noting the revival of interest in anarchism since the 1960s, Woodcock wrote in his introduction "Anarchism, in summary, is a phoenix in an awakening desert, an idea that has revived for the only reason ideas revive - that they respond to some need felt deeply by people".
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/ws95/woodcock45.html (434 words)

	100 Canadian Poets - George Woodcock - Profile
		George Woodcock was born May 8, 1912 in Winnipeg.
		Woodcock spent his early years in England, returning to Canada in 1949.
		Not only a poet and literary critic, Woodcock was involved in numerous facets of Canadian culture and politics.
	www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/poet/g_woodcock.htm (277 words)

	George Woodcock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		George Woodcock (May 8, 1912 - January 28, 1995) was a Canadian writer.
		The family was quite poor, but Woodcock had the opportunity to go to university in Oxford on a scholarship.
		However, the two met and became good friends, with Woodcock later writing, a biography of Orwell which won a Governor General's Award in 1966.
	www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/George_Woodcock (481 words)

	Canadian Literature: Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Editor, poet, critic, travel writer, historian, philosopher, essayist, biographer, autobiographer, political activist, university lecturer, librettist, humanitarian, gardener…George Woodcock seemed entitled to wear almost as many hats as there are works to his credit—which stand at somewhere between 120 and 150, not including the radio and TV plays, documentaries and speeches.
		George Woodcock was first and foremost a Canadian, born May 12th, 1912, in Winnipeg.
		Although George accepted this honour, he was unable to attend the festivities, which included the largest gathering of authors in Western Canada (Margaret Atwood read out his speech), a gallery showing of new art created in his honour, and a 2-day symposium to celebrate his lifetime work at Simon Fraser University’s downtown campus.
	www.canlit.ca /resources/woodcock.html (854 words)

	Featured Authors
		Woodcock was an author of international renown, and an editor, poet, critic, and essayist.
		Woodcock was profoundly educated politically and consequently everything he engaged himself in was carefully selected.
		These eleven volumes are a testimony to the memory of George Woodcock and to his great teacher and mentor, Peter Kropotkin, whose influence is ever present.
	www.blackrosebooks.net /woodcock.htm (356 words)

	Review: All (Wood)Cock and Bull (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Woodcock had decided to leave the Anarchist movement so as not to be infected by the "orthodoxy of belief".
		In 1968 Woodcock quietly got on his typewriter (while the battle of the barricades was being fought in Paris) and decided to plaster over the gaping holes in his premature prediction of the death of Anarchism.
		The basis of Woodcock's gripe with Chomsky is that he puts the working class (economic matters) at the centre of anarchism.
	struggle.ws /ws93/woodcock38.html (851 words)

	George Woodcock: Anarchy, Freedom, Native People & The Environment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Woodcock, 78, has just finished writing a book on the history of British Columbia, and now is “between things”—doing a little poetry, a little translation.
		Woodcock: I think anarchism and its teachings of decentralization, of the co-ordination of rural and industrial societies, and of mutual aid as the foundation of any viable societies, have lessons that in the present are especially applicable to industrial societies.
		Woodcock: The abortion issue will remain with us for a long time, though in terms of civil liberties it is a straightforward one, with women having a complete right to control their own bodies.
	aurora.icaap.org /archive/woodcock.html (3042 words)

	Broadview Press: Anarchism
		In Woodcock's view "pure" anarchism — characterized by "the loose and flexible affinity group which needs no formal organization" — was incompatible with mass movements that require stable organizations, that are forced to make compromises in the face of changing circumstances, and that need to maintain the allegiance of a wide range of supporters.
		Yet Woodcock continued to cherish anarchist ideals; as he said in a 1990 interview, "I think anarchism and its teachings of decentralization, of the coordination of rural and industrial societies, and of mutual aid as the foundation of any viable society, have lessons that in the present are especially applicable to industrial societies."
		George Woodcock (1912-1995), internationally acclaimed intellectual historian and man of letters, was the author of dozens of books, including the classic biography Gabriel Dumont: The Métis Chief and His Lost World (also available from Broadview), and the Governor-General's Award-winning George Orwell: The Crystal Spirit.
	www.broadviewpress.com /bvbooks.asp?bookid=674 (386 words)

	Canadian Literature: Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		George Woodcock, the person--as distinct from George Woodcock, the author, the imposing name on so many book jackets--I first met under unprepossessing circumstances over thirty years ago.
		George's books on Canadian literature testify to his enquiring mind; they stand also as a model of the way he has educated others to appreciate where their culture derives some of its values from.
		George Woodcock's criticism is always asking readers to make such connections, asking the present to shape the future by connecting critically and constructively--and contextually--with the past.
	www.canlit.ca /resources/whnew.html (1770 words)

	Youth
		In the next ten minutes, Scott Woodcock missed a glorious chance to equalise with a shot that was cleared off the line, as did Ian Anjoss and on 57 minutes it was 2-0 as Bradley Hough notched his 20th goal of the season for the Blues.
		Woodcock was again the provider for the next chance, this time for George who muffed his shot, and Woodcock then took a shot himself only to see the ball strike the post and bounce clear.
		Scott Woodcock was a real handful for the Fenmen's defence but should have done better after only nine minutes when he elected to shoot as a pass to Furlong on his right looked the better option.
	yarmouthfc.tripod.com /home/id34.html (3568 words)

	George Woodcock: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about George Woodcock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		He is probably best known today in Canada for founding the journal Canadian Literature[?] in 1959, the first journal dedicated to Canadian writing, still publishing today; while elsewhere in the world, he is probably best remembered for writing Anarchism, seen as one of the great overviews of anarchism (first published 1962).
		However, the two met and became good friends, with Woodcock later writing The Crystal Spirit[?], a biography of Orwell.
		Woodcock was awarded several awards, including a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada[?] in 1968, the UBC Medal for Popular Biography in 1973 and 1976 and the Molson Prize[?] in 1973.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ge/George-Woodcock.html (481 words)

	Woodcock, George (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Woodcock, George, author, essayist, man of letters (b at Winnipeg 8 May 1912; d at Vancouver 28 Jan 1995).
		Residence in the UK also meant that Woodcock was heir to the British radical tradition with its sense of historical continuity and its feeling that leftward progress is achieved partly by progress in the arts.
		More important were Woodcock's works of literary criticism, such as the books about his near contemporaries, eg, Dawn and the Darkest Hour: A Study of Aldous Huxley (1972) and Thomas Merton, Monk and Poet (1978).
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0008698 (526 words)

	Woodcock's Anarchism — Kate Sharpley Library
		Woodcock's evolving along the lines of a growing adaptation to a society which he once believed was corrupt certainly goes a long way to explain his aggressive attitude to anarchism.
		Declaring in favour of unconditional pacifism, Woodcock dubs the anarchist terrorists "criminals," which shows up the absence of a serious approach in his investigation generally; though what he owes to Max Nettlau (the anarchist historian) may be greater than his words indicate on account of the systematic omission of sources.
		This blinkered pacifism leads Woodcock to ignore the Italian theoretician Galleani, the Argentine movement as a whole, the social struggles in the United States (the struggles at the turn of the century are utterly ignored) and the roles of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman appear inconsequential.
	www.katesharpleylibrary.net /woodcock.htm (773 words)

	A tribute to the Woodcocks - www.phayul.com
		George Woodcock, known to her close friends as "Inge" passed away in Vancouver, B.C. on the 11th December 2003 after a long illness; eight years earlier her husband, Professor George Woodcock, internationally known Canadian writer, poet, critic, activist, philosopher and professor of English literature, died.
		Woodcock and Inge, had a special affinity towards the Tibetans and developed a close friendship with the Tibetans after their trip to India in the early 1960's, shortly after the 1959 Tibetan Uprising in Lhasa, against the Chinese Communist military occupation of Tibet.
		Let this tribute to George and Inge be also a reminder to the Tibetans, many of whom do not know George Woodcock and his wife that these two Canadians and their friends helped the Tibetans in our hour of need and always remained a close friend of the Tibetans.
	www.phayul.com /news/article.aspx?id=5698 (671 words)

	Canadian Literature: Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Woodcock and his wife first visited India in 1962, although he describes his own very long involvement in the country as beginning with his conversion to pacifism and his interest in the views of Gandhi, while in his twenties.
		Woodcock's essay on his passion for India ends with the announcement of yet another book on this subject, The Walls of India, written after a trip taken with Ingeborg, and Toni Onley and his wife.
		George Woodcock is often described as a loner, and in many ways this seems an appropriate description, certainly he views writing as a solitary endeavour.
	www.cdn-lit.ubc.ca /resources/martin.html (2385 words)

	Manitoba History: REVIEW, George Woodcock, The Canadians
		Woodcock has to say about each of the seven regions is always interesting and sometimes provocative.
		Woodcock evidently assumes that a better world is around the corner once the central government has withered away and we are left alone with just the powerful multinational corporations and the petty provincial potentates.
		Woodcock has said so many sensible and worthwhile things that his rather cranky editorializing on one or two matters can be forgiven.
	www.mhs.mb.ca /docs/mb_history/02/thecanadians.shtml (956 words)

	Orwell, George -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The term was coined by George Orwell in his novel Nineteen Eighty-four (1949).
		As a journalist and writer of autobiographical narratives, George Orwell was outstanding.
		In a dramatization, George Washington recalls crossing the Delaware, spending the winter at Valley Forge and defeating the British at the Battle of Yorktown.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9057505&query=george (826 words)

	Featured Authors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Woodcock was an author of international renown, and an editor, poet, critic, and essayist.
		Woodcock was profoundly educated politically and consequently everything he engaged himself in was carefully selected.
		Above all George Woodcock was an anarchist, one who enriched this movement of ideas in a very significant way.
	www.web.net /~blakrose/woodcock.htm (356 words)

	Directory - Arts: Literature: World Literature: Canadian: Authors: Non-fiction: Woodcock, George
		Tribute to George Woodcock · Resources for those interested in furthering their knowledge about George Woodcock and his achievements.
		George Woodcock Remembered · cached · Profile of the critic from the Friends of the UBC Library newsletter.
		George Woodcock Memorial · Tribute to the writer, including the poem, 'Black Flag'.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=67678 (184 words)

	British Columbia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		George Woodcock's writerly orientation to the world at large has never prevented him from giving sustained and close attention to what lay near at hand.
		Woodcock's strongly cosmopolitan presentation of the province and its people stands, quite simply, at the centre of what he has attempted here.
		But whether they involve themselves with it or not, they are almost certain to find the argument Woodcock uses to reach his position on the matter interesting in the extreme.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/733/columbia19.htm (721 words)

	George Woodcock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		George was buried in Eastfield Road Cemetary, Peterborough - his mother Amy was buried with him when she died in March 1916.
		There are virtually no details surviving about George other than a surviving memory card, produced after or for the funeral for family and mourners.
		This card was kept by nepher Alan (Felix) Fordham, presumably from his mother, Edith - George's sister - who would have been just 19 when her brother died.
	www.edfordham.com /george_woodcock.htm (82 words)

	Commentary Magazine - On George Orwell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		George Woodcock's interesting and well informed review of George Orwell's "Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters." I agree with most of what Mr.
		Woodcock says, but one passage in his review is really too much to swallow.
		...Woodcock admires Orwell and is out to steal him, to kidnap him and keep him in the "anarchist and libertarian" menagerie...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V47I6P30-1.htm (1385 words)

	MUSING001: George Woodcock memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		George Woodcock died on the 28th January 1995, and I only found out the other day [very end of February 1995].
		The first edition, written in 1960/1 (Penguin 1963), characterised anarchism as a movement which was now, for all intents and purposes, finished - to quote Woodcock himself, it "took on a somewhat elegiac tone".
		George Woodcock, 8th May 1912 to 28th January 1995.
	doug.bi.org /musings/musing001.html (399 words)

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