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	100 Canadian Poets - Irving Layton - Profile
		Irving Layton (Israel Lazarovitch) was born March 12, 1912 in Tirgu Neamt, Romania.
		Layton was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1981.
		The uncollected poems of Irving Layton : 1936-59.
	www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/poet/i_layton.htm (753 words)

	Irving Layton, Poet
		Layton's work had provided the bolt of lightening that was needed to split open the thin skin of conservatism and complacency in the poetry scene of the preceding century, allowing modern poetry to expose previously unseen richness and depth (Jacobs, 2001).
		Layton continued to teach for the greater part of his life: as a teacher of modern English and American poetry at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University) and as a tenured professor at Toronto's York University in the 1970s, as well as delivering many lectures and readings throughout Canada.
		Irving Layton, earned local fame at birth as he was born naturally circumcised, which orthodox Jews believe is a mark of the Messiah.
	irvinglayton.blogspot.com (10854 words)

	Blog of Death: Irving Layton
		Irving Layton, a prolific Canadian poet and professor, died on Jan. 4.
		Born Israel Pincu Lazarovitch in Tirgul Neamt, Romania, Layton was naturally circumcised at birth, which orthodox Jews considered the mark of the Messiah.
		Layton fell in love with poetry upon hearing his tenth grade English teacher read the epic poem, "The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet," by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/001537.html (493 words)

	Layton, Irving Peter
		Layton, Irving Peter, née Israel Lazarovitch, poet, short-story writer, essayist, professor (b at Tirgu Neamt, Romania 12 Mar 1912; d at Montréal 4 Jan 2006).
		Layton was one of a nucleus of young Montréal poets who believed they were effecting a revolution against insipid romanticism and published their poems in First Statement (1942-45), a journal edited by John SUTHERLAND.
		Layton was nominated by Italy and Korea for the Nobel Prize in 1981.
	www.canadianencyclopedia.ca /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0004576 (617 words)

	Layton, Irving Peter
		Layton was one of a nucleus of young Montréal poets who believed they were effecting a revolution against insipid romanticism and published their poems in First Statement (1942-45), a journal edited by John SUTHERLAND.
		Layton was nominated by Italy and Korea for the Nobel Prize in 1981.
		Layton remained prolific until the 1990s when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, the disease which eventually led to his death.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0004576 (617 words)

	Montreal Writers: A Gallery of Montreal Writers - Irving Layton
		Irving Layton (Israel Lazarovitch) was born March 12, 1912 in Tirgu Neamt, Romania.
		A poet, short-story writer, and essayist, Layton is perhaps the most well-known of the Montreal poets, a group of young poets who engaged in a battle against romanticism in poetry in the 1940's.
		Layton was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1981.
	www.vehiculepress.com /montreal/gallery/layton.html (0 words)

	Irving Layton, 93, considered leading poet in Canada - The Boston Globe
		Layton had as many enemies as friends, and was considered a fierce debater as well as an outspoken social and political critic.
		Layton was named to the Order of Canada in 1976 and nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature in 1982.
		Layton was born Israel Lazarovitch in the small town of Tirgul Neamt, Romania, in 1912.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2006/01/09/irving_layton_93_considered_leading_poet_in_canada (400 words)

	Irving Layton
		Irving Layton (born March 12, 1912) is a Canadian poet.
		Layton vigorously pursued his eduction eventually receiving a degree in Agricultural sciences from MacDonald College in 1939.
		Layton's activism and poetry had made him an internationally known celebrity by the 1950s and he a fixture on early Canadian television.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/i/ir/irving_layton.html (368 words)

	Irving Layton: 'Poet physician' - "On This Day" - CBC Archives (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Layton was an intensely passionate man and felt blindly drawn to women.
		Layton was just as passionate politically, poking at the "clipped, tortuous" bourgeois in his prose.
		Layton and his fourth wife, Harriet Bernstein, who was once his student, had a child, Samantha.
	archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-68-528-2618-11/that_was_then/arts_entertainment/irving_layton_obit (581 words)

	BookClubs.ca \| Books \| Waiting for the Messiah by Irving Layton
		Layton's "crazy need for experience" drove him to embrace or challenge all that he encountered, and he recounts his first experiences with sex and death, his associations with literary friends and rivals, his relationships with women.
		It was in the ferment of this milieu that Layton ripened as a poet
		Irving Layton was born in 1912 and has lived most of his life in Montreal.
	www.bookclubs.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780771049521 (413 words)

	Irving Layton 1912 - 2006
		Irving Layton, the flamboyant poet who died yesterday in Montreal at age 93, once described himself as "a quiet madman, never far from tears," who wrote poems to cause trouble.
		Layton was born Israel Pincu Lazarovitch in Tirgu Neamt, Romania, on March 12, 1912.
		Layton didn't start to write poetry until he was in his 30s; he once explained that as a schoolboy reading Wordsworth and Byron, he "naturally thought that in order to be a poet one had to be either English or dead, preferably both."
	www.canada.com /edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=6830da8b-52cf-4389-9053-f14230826c48&k=88482 (0 words)

	BLOG THIS \| blog.thismagazine.ca
		Layton considers this to be a pivotal moment--he finally joined the ranks of poets and saw his destiny materializing.
		Layton now realized that he and his key contemporaries were part of a new movement in poetry--an energy that was moving away from the post World War I Romantic poetry that had been the mainstay for so long.
		Layton had been awarded several honorary degrees and was in high demand as a speaker and workshop teacher in Canada and abroad when he would become the proud father of another son, David (1964).
	blog.thismagazine.ca /archives/2006/01/irving_layton_r.html (3305 words)

	Irving Layton; One of Canada's top poets; 93 \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Irving Layton, a prolific writer and one of Canada's top poets, has died.
		Layton published more than 40 books of poetry and prose during more than five decades, making his way to the top of Canada's literary hierarchy.
		Layton was born Israel Lazarovitch on March 12, 1912, in Romania.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20060124/news_1m24layton.html (233 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Obituaries (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Irving Layton (as he became) grew up in the immigrant Jewish neighbourhood east of St Laurent Boulevard, attended English-language schools, and also the famed Baron Byng High School, whose alumni also include the late writer Mordecai Richler.
		Layton and his fellow poets Raymond Souster and Louis Dudek soon founded the poets' co-operative publishing house Contact Press in 1952, chiefly to disseminate their social and urban realist poetry.
		Layton's reputation waned in the 1980s and 1990s as a new generation of writers and readers turned away from the public and polemical dimension of his writings.
	news.independent.co.uk /people/obituaries/article340050.ece (755 words)

	Irving Layton, Poet: 01/06/06
		Layton was born Israel Lazarovitch in Romania and was the seventh and final child of Moses, a Jewish bookkeeper, and his wife Klara.
		Layton started to gain notoriety when he was in University in the 1930s for his socialist politics and writings, both of which would see him fllisted from entering the United States for nearly fifteen years.
		Here is Irving Layton at his worst and best, in both cases, painfully alive and alert to desire and suffering; to beauty and its anguish; to the acute power of observance and elegy.
	irvinglayton.blogspot.com /2006_01_06_irvinglayton_archive.html (12383 words)

	Irving Layton, Pseudo-Prophet -- A Reappraisal
		Layton’s work must be judged as a whole, and on the very terms on which critics have tried to establish him as a prophetic figure, not least of which is his much-vaunted sensitivity, sense of justice and compassion.
		Layton’s principal attitudes or stances on religious, moral, social and literary questions are, in fact, not rebellious towards conventional norms or the status-quo, except insofar as they involve anti-capitalist positions, and the examples of these in Layton are not very convincing.
		Layton, it might seem, has developed an integrated view rooted in his sense of his Jewishness and his alienation from repressive morality and literary scholasticism, but much light can be thrown on all of this by a study of the affinities he has with that venerable figure of Canadian scholarship, Northrop Frye.
	www.uwo.ca /english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol01/hunt.htm (11080 words)

	Welcome to myfoodcount.com - Measure your Health - Famous Parkinson Sufferer - Irving Layton
		Layton's work had provided the bolt of lightening that was needed to split open the thin skin of conservatism and complacency in the poetry scene of the preceding century, allowing modern poetry to expose previously unseen richness and depth (Jacobs, 2001).
		Layton would continue to teach for the greater part of his life: as a teacher of modern English and American poetry at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University) and as a tenured professor at Toronto's York University in the 1970s, as well as delivering many lectures and readings throughout Canada.
		Layton would pursue his Ph.D. in 1948 though he would abandon it due to the demands of his already hectic professional life.
	www.myfoodcount.com /healthylife/famous/parkinsons/irvinglayton.html (1303 words)

	Guest Book - Irving Layton
		The Irving Layton I remember was easily approachable, generous and kind, with a twinkle in his eye that left a chuckle in ones heart.
		I was lucky to hear Irving Layton read to a packed house at an independent bookstore on Wellington Street in 1990 and loved the experience of hearing his voice echo through the mid March, overheated, and exuberant crowd of devotees.
		Irving Layton was my first cousin twice removed (his mother and my grandmother were first cousins).
	www.legacy.com /can-montreal/GB/GuestbookView.aspx?PersonId=16222193 (566 words)

	Irving Layton, Biography
		Layton considers this to be a pivotal moment--he finally joined the ranks of poets and saw his destiny materializing.
		Layton now realized that he and his key contemporaries were part of a new movement in poetry--an energy that was moving away from the post World War I Romantic poetry that had been the mainstay for so long.
		Layton had been awarded several honorary degrees and was in high demand as a speaker and workshop teacher in Canada and abroad when he would become the proud father of another son, David (1964).
	www.library.utoronto.ca /canpoetry/layton/bio.htm (2511 words)

	IRVING LAYTON Independent, The (London) - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Irving Layton (as he became) grew up in the immigrant Jewish neighbourhood east of St Laurent BoulevardEUR attended English- language schoolsEUR and also the famed Baron Byng High SchoolEUR whose alumni also include the late writer Mordecai Richler.
		Layton and his fellow poets Raymond Souster and Louis Dudek soon founded the poets' co-operative publishing house Contact Press in 1952EUR chiefly to disseminate their social and urban realist poetry.
		Layton's reputation waned in the 1980s and 1990s as a new generation of writers and readers turned away from the public and polemical dimension of his writings.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20060121/ai_n16024832 (714 words)

	CM Magazine: Irving Layton
		Layton vehemently castigated Canadian gentility, which meant, for him, a distrust of any art or other forms of expression or activity that threatened the restricted confines of the puritanical, middle-class mind.
		Layton's background and early life were the polar opposite of those of the conventional, middle-class, Christian, Canadian poets of the pre-World War II era.
		In a short biography, she has created a clear picture of Irving Layton the poet and the man. Her judgements and criticisms of Layton, and his critics, are sound.
	www.umanitoba.ca /cm/vol2/no26/layton.html (749 words)

	CBC.ca Arts - Poet Irving Layton dies
		Layton spent much of his career as a teacher, first at a parochial high school, later becoming an English professor at Sir George Williams University and York University.
		It was at the college that Layton's left-wing radicalism blossomed on the page, as he wrote a column for the student newspaper.
		Layton is best-known for his rapier wit and his ongoing battle against uniformity and Puritanism.
	www.cbc.ca /story/arts/national/2006/01/04/Layton-Obit.html (1771 words)

	Layton, Irving Criticism and Essays
		Although Layton's inflated sense of self-worth and his controversial views about women have alienated some readers, critics have generally acknowledged the refreshing effects of Layton's essentially romantic outlook on Canadian letters and have often cited his role in renewing poetry's relevance to contemporary affairs.
		Born Irving Peter Lazarovitch on March 12, 1912, in Neamtz, Romania, Layton immigrated to Canada at the age of one with his family and eventually settled in Montreal, where his mother supported the family by running a small grocery store.
		Layton's poems also frequently rail against social injustice and denounce the materialistic bourgeoisie, exploring the elemental passions and the relationship between the physical and spiritual worlds while exalting the individual—especially the poet.
	www.enotes.com /contemporary-literary-criticism/layton-irving (2281 words)

	[Deathwatch] Irving Layton, poet, 93
		Layton opened his wallet, pulled out all of his lira and pinned some to the bottom of her skirt to make a hem, then slipped the rest of them under the straps of her dress to fashion sleeves.
		Irving Layton was born Israel Lazarovitch in Romania before the First World War, one of several children of Moses and Keine (Moscovitch) Lazarovitch, but changed his name to Irving Layton when he decided to become a poet.
		Layton as buttercups in Canadian Poetry Magazine." "He was my teacher in Grade 7," television guru Moses Znaimer said yesterday, explaining that it was the scaremongering of the McCarthy era in the early 1950s that forced "a guy of Irving's calibre" to find work at a Jewish day school.
	slick.org /deathwatch/mailarchive/msg01896.html (2100 words)

	Irving Layton Biography
		Irving Layton (born March 12, 1912) is a Canadian poet.
		Layton eventually became a teacher, first at a Montreal Jewish High School, and then as a political-science professor at Sir George Williams University.
		Layton's activism and poetry had made him an internationally known celebrity by the 1950s and he a fixture on early Canadian television.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Layton_Irving.html (0 words)

	Irving Layton Biography and Summary
		Irving Layton is Canada's most prolific and pugnacious poet and has sustained a powerful if not to say domineering position in Canadian letters for over forty-five years.
		Irving Layton OC(March 12, 1912 – January 4, 2006) was a Canadian poet.
		Wiens focuses on Pacey's criticism of and influence on Layton's poetics from the early 1950s to the mid-1970s.
	www.bookrags.com /Irving_Layton (0 words)

	MYTOWN
		Irving Layton was considered somewhat dirty back then.
		As he started publishing in the late 1940s, the bohemian lifestyle many young men had experienced in Europe after WWII transformed in to the Beat generation of the 50s and Irving Layton's cold realistic and sometimes harsh imagery married well with the new Beatnik view of life from just outside polite society.
		"Irving Layton is moving back to Montreal." I suppose the look on my face told him I needed some more information.
	www.mytown.ca /ev.php?URL_ID=110431&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201&reload=1136556189 (871 words)

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