
	Where results make sense

Topic: Louis Dudek

Related Topics

Poet

Albrecht Achilles

Jeremy Glick

Specular reflection

In the News (Tue 29 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Some Dudek Texts and Essays
		Louis Dudek: Texts and Essays is a massive volume, intellectually intense and invigorating; it provides a stimulating overview of one poet's thinking and writing during the past four decades, but especially from the late sixties to the present.
		Although Louis Dudek opens with the interview, and although both the questions and the responses are lively, intelligent, knowledgeable, and highly provocative, I think it might be better to read the essays before reading the interview, since many of the questions assume a knowledge of what Dudek has previously written.
		Louis Dudek: Texts and Essays is a valuable addition to his oeuvre and to the narrow shelf of Canadian literary reference texts because it provides a wide-ranging overview of Dudek's thought and continually provokes intelligent argument in its readers.
	www.uwo.ca /english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol12/barbour.htm (1483 words)

	Louis Dudek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Louis Dudek (February 6, 1918 - March 23, 2001) was a Canadian poet.
		Born in Montreal, Quebec, Dudek received a BA from McGill University in 1939.
		Dudek remained at McGill for the rest of his life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_Dudek (134 words)

	Dudek, Louis
		Dudek, Louis, poet, critic, professor and literary activist (b at Montréal 6 Feb 1918; d at Montréal 22 March 2001).
		In 1944 Dudek moved to New York, where he entered graduate school at Columbia; his doctoral dissertation was published as Literature and the Press (1960).
		In 1957 Dudek founded his own little magazine, Delta (1957-66), a vehicle for his poetry and ideas, and in which he featured the work of many promising new poets.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0002426 (554 words)

	100 Canadian Poets - Louis Dudek - Profile
		Louis Dudek was born in Montreal on February 6, 1918.
		With Raymond Souster and Irving Layton, Dudek founded Contact Press, which was a major poetry publisher in the fifties and sixties in Montreal.
		Dudek went on to found CIV/n, the little magazine Delta, and The McGill Poetry Series, which helped establish the reputations of emerging poets like Leonard Cohen.
	www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/poet/l_dudek.htm (314 words)

	Louis Dudek: Essays on His Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The two last mentioned were in Dudek's coterie with Hildebrand in the last years of the poet's life, and this gives the selection a clannish quality that should have been avoided, especially for the easy consensus it encourages.
		That Dudek was a great poet and critic grossly neglected in his time is foremost of these, and almost all here affirm it (although the possibility of his greatness never occurred to Dorothy Livesay, the earliest commentator included).
		Third, that Dudek passionately and wisely advocated the 'functionality' of poetry, which is a medium for the expression of rationally founded ideas and not (or at least not only) a pleasing verbal commodity for academic or popular consumption.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/721/721_review_trehearne.html (703 words)

	Literary Montreal: A Tribute to Louis Dudek
		Dudek was passionately supported by small-press publishers, and Simon Dardick of Véhicule Press and Sonia Skarstedt of Empyreal are two Montreal publishers who continued to issue his books until the end of his life.
		Dudek was born in 1918 in Montreal and spent most of his life here, including a teaching career at McGill that spanned 30 years, from 1951 to 1982.
		Dudek himself became a passionate admirer and defender of Pound, and his efforts contributed to the older poet's release in 1958 from St. Elizabeth's mental hospital (where Pound had been confined since 1946).
	www.vehiculepress.com /montreal/tribute_dudek.html (946 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Literature & the Press, by Louis Dudek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		...Dudek makes the point that until 1815, the circulations of the leading newspapers were "virtually equal to the capacity of the printing press," but that their growth had been constrained from 1815 to 1836, for political reasons, by a Stamp Tax that made their price prohibitive...
		...Dudek's conclusions follow less from his understanding of this history than from the facts themselves, and his final comments have an interest of their own...
		...Dudek devotes three long chapters to the careers of Dickens, Thackeray, and Carlyle, to exemplify how each of these men was affected differently by the pressures of mass printing-in either choice of subject matter, development of style, or control over output...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V32I2P94-1.htm (1828 words)

	The Antigonish Review: issue 116 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Both are Poundians, Dudek one of the first Canadians to seek out Pound at St. Elizabeths, and Kenner the pre-eminent Pound scholar of the twentieth century.
		That Dudek and Kenner are still very much alive and intellectually vibrant is again confirmed by the two books under consideration hereDudek's The Caged Tiger (1997), a collection of poems, and Kenner's The Elsewhere Community (1998), a collection of essays written for the 1997 CBC Massey Lectures.
		Dudek reminded me of what Pound told both him and Kenner on their visits to St. Elizabeths: "You have an obligation to visit the great men of your time." Dudek writes much the same thing in "Lessons": "I have been sent / to bring you light, / the poet says" (5).
	www.cim.mcgill.ca /~dudek/LouisDudek/tremblay-antigonish116.html (1307 words)

	The Antigonish Review 125: Tony Tremblay - Louis Dudek - In Memoriam
		The renewal, Dudek wrote, "was primarily a housecleaning, a sweep-out of sentimental propriety and moral hypocrisy." Together, through their joint editorship of the literary magazine First Statement, the three resolved "to change the shape of Canadian poetry," releasing our poetry from the shackles of foreign expression and tradition.
		Dudek's study became the nature of poetry and poets over time, a study rooted in his own frustration with the contemporary lack of reverence for the arts, what he elsewhere called "the unreading public." He wrote of this frustration which fuelled his curiosity:
		Dudek became one of Pound's "serious characters" in the late 1940s, working through various means and contacts to carry out the business of civilization through poetry, publishing, editing, and polemical criticism.
	www.antigonishreview.com /bi-125/125-tonytremblay.html (1270 words)

	Louis Dudek, Biography
		Louis Dudek was born in Montreal on February 6th, 1918 in a catholic family emigrated from Poland.
		Dudek -claims Susan Stromberg- saw in Pound "a fine tenderness and humanity and he recognized in Pound primarily a dedication to the art of poetry".
		Dudek´s intellectual inquisitiveness led him to research in the relation of literature to technology and commerce in society; a study which culminated in a Doctoral Thesis entitled "The Relations between literature and the Press".
	www.library.utoronto.ca /canpoetry/dudek/bio.htm (1462 words)

	CONTEXT
		The legacy of the magazine was Souster’s decision, along with Louis Dudek and Irving Layton, to found the Contact Press in 1952, which emerged over the next 15 years as the most important poet-operated and self-financed small press in Canada.
		The legacy of the magazine was Souster's decision, along with Louis Dudek and Irving Layton, to found the Contact Press in 1952.
		Dudek's lead article in the first issue was a clarion call for the youth of Canada to rise up from poetic lethargy and help shape the modernist Canadian imagination.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /2/17/h17-200-e.html (1117 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Louis Dudek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Dudek’s literary accomplishments reflect his deep belief in the civilizing effects of poetry and its “practical role in the realm of human values.” He proclaimed the power of poetry to redress a number of social ills – alienation, disaffection, anarchy, and barbarism – through its careful groundedness in the individual poet’s morality and rationality.
		Dudek was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1918 to parents of Polish descent (via Russia and England).
		Though troubled by Pound’s politics and dogmatism, Dudek was inflamed by Pound’s poetry, as well as what he considered to be Pound’s misunderstood humanist sensibility; Dudek considered Pound the greatest poet of the modern age as well as the most significant influence on his own work.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1333 (640 words)

	Louis Dudek: A poet's poet
		Louis Dudek, professor emeritus in the Department of English, passed away on Thursday, March 22, 2001, at the age of 83.
		He was a regular contributor of articles to Canadian academic journals and, in keeping with his commitment to literature as part of daily life, made frequent appearances on CBC Radio and in various newspapers as a commentator on the arts and culture.
		Dudek's poetry received little critical discussion during his lifetime, a lack I believe he felt keenly, even though he shunned the kinds of fame and reputation that successful poets sometimes receive from their purchasers.
	www.mcgill.ca /reporter/33/14/dudek (517 words)

	Montreal Scene
		Dudek continued to serve as an editor of the Contact Press until the Press folded in 1967 and to edit his little magazine Delta which he founded in 1957.
		Louis Dudek's Delta magazine was founded in response to Raymond Souster's little magazine, Combustion.
		Dudek challenged Souster's international perspective, and announced in the first issue that Delta "is a poetry magazine for Canada with a job to do here." In the special issue on display, Dudek introduced his readership to new poetry of Vancouver.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /2/17/h17-209-e.html (268 words)

	Dk / Some Letters of Ezra Pound
		From the early 1950s through 1968, poet and pre-eminent man of letters, Louis Dudek, maintained a lengthy, varied, and always stimulating correspondence with that irascible genius, Ezra Pound.
		Louis Dudek, born in Montreal, was educated both at McGill and Columbia University.
		In the years before his death in 2001, Dudek was justly identified as Canada’s premier man of letters.
	www.dcbooks.ca /lettersofEzraPound.html (186 words)

	Reviews
		Louis Dudek, BA'39, is likely one of McGill's most fondly remembered professors, whose influence extended far beyond the University as a poet, critic, publisher and inspiration to generations of young writers.
		Dudek's small-press publishing houses, Contact Press, Delta Canada, and DC Books, would be responsible for encouraging the early careers of Margaret Atwood, Al Purdy, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Milton Acorn and many others.
		There are interviews with Dudek, literary analyses, facsimiles and excerpts of his work, rare photos of figures from the pantheon of CanLit, and contributions from members of Dudek's family.
	www.mcgill.ca /news/2003/winter/reviews (1773 words)

	The Surface Of Time, By Louis Dudek
		Dudek is an ideas man with strong opinions and an unsophisticated ear who writes lines that bang with the tinniness of his assertions.
		In fact, at 83, Dudek seems, eerily enough, to have reached the same point an elderly Pound reached in his own work: where the familiar persona — standoffish, authoritative, opinionated - has been shaken down by the oddities and ironies of aging.
		Indeed, if Dudek’s book asks to be read as tombstone speculations, the poems exhibit a rather untombstone tone: something at once cagey and acerbic and satirical, all tamped down inside a moving, workaday honesty.
	www.aelaq.org /mrb/article.php?issue=1&article=16&cat=3 (393 words)

	Louis Dudek
		The death of Louis Dudek on Thursday marks the beginning of the end of the pioneering forties generation of Canadian modernism.
		As a dedicated intellectual of his time, Dudek felt it was necessary defend the intellect against what he saw as its degradation in the sixties.
		But Dudek's little mags, from First Statement in the forties through to Delta in the sixties, and his books did reach out, and eventually we discovered those long poems, written in the tradition we sought to emulate, but written here, by one of us.
	www.cim.mcgill.ca /~dudek/louisDudek.html (1669 words)

	My Life Without Leonard Cohen
		Whether our teacher, Louis Dudek, wanted to share his enthusiasm for every work he admired, or knew how slight were our chances of being educated by anyone else, he drove us through the modern classics like sheep before a storm.
		Louis Dudek's two-pronged program for a Canadian literary renaissance--one prong creative, the other critical--reached out to different constituencies which split pretty much along the social divide between "Westmount" and "Outremont," the old money and the immigrant sections around the mountain that gives Montreal its name.
		I sensed that even then he had already gotten clear of Louis, not only because he considered himself the truer poet but because he was cannier all around, in his handling of people and in his understanding of markets and fame.
	www.webheights.net /speakingcohen/wisse.htm (6021 words)

	Contact Press
		Contact Press (1952-67) was founded as a poets' co-operative by Louis DUDEK, Raymond SOUSTER and Irving LAYTON, who were generally dissatisfied with the slight opportunities for publication available to Canadian poets.
		Beginning before subsidies and government aid to Canadian BOOK PUBLISHING had become a mainstay of such activity, Contact was a self-financed act of faith on the part of its founders.
		While its main thrust was in publishing the new work of individual poets, it produced a milestone anthology, Canadian Poems 1850-1952, co-edited by Dudek and Layton in 1952, and an avant-garde manifesto of young poets published as New Wave Canada: The New Explosion in Canadian Poetry (1966).
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001885 (243 words)

	Eternal Conversations: Remembering Louis Dudek: A Tribute Anthology, Edited By Aileen Collins Et Al
		Dudek also founded Contact, Delta Canada, and then DC Books, small presses that first published many of the writers in this anthology, such as Michael Gnarowski, Raymond Filip, Ken Norris, Steve Luxton, Laurence Hutchman, Stephen Morrissey, George Ellenbogen, Ronald Sutherland, Lionel Kearns, and John Asfour.
		Collett Tracey calls Dudek a "Quiet Hero." She first met him in the cafeteria at Concordia University where he went (after he retired) because he missed being around students.
		Eternal Conversations is a worthwhile read for anyone interested in the life and talents of Louis Dudek, and in the second wave of Canadian modernism and Montreal's place in it.
	www.aelaq.org /mrb/article.php?issue=12&article=331&cat=4 (589 words)

	Commentary Magazine - My Life Without Leonard Cohen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		...Louis Dudek's two-pronged program for a Canadian literary renaissance-one prong creative, the other critical-reached out to different constituencies which split pretty much along the social divide between "Westmount" and "Outremont," the old money and the immigrant sections around the mountain that gives Montreal its name...
		...Dudek's class met in the Arts Building on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 5 to 6 P.M., an hour when the regular university day was ending to make way for the apprentice accountants and other extension-school students...
		...Dudek had just been graduated from Columbia University where he wrote his dissertation for Emory Neff, the same man who advised Lionel Trilling not to join Columbia's Department of English because Trilling would feel out of place there as a Jew...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V100I4P29-1.htm (6204 words)

	Europe
		Although the sections of the poem are arranged chronologically in the order of his journeyings, the poem is less the story of Dudek's travels than a series of moral and aesthetic meditations prompted by his experiences.
		But Dudek's comments on the decline of western civilization are still valid.
		Louis Dudek, together with Irving Layton and Raymond Souster, founded Contact Press in 1952, a venture which would publish most of the important Canadian poets of the 1950s and 1960s.
	www.sentex.net /~pql/europe.html (502 words)

	Raymond Souster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Souster joined the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in 1939 and, apart from his service in World War II, worked there until his retirement in 1985.
		With Louis Dudek and Irving Layton he collaborated on CONTACT magazine and Contact Press.
		Souster helped to establish the League of Canadian Poets and, from 1967 to 1972, served as the first president of the organization.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Raymond_Souster (259 words)

	Eternal Conversations: Remembering Louis Dudek
		Louis Dudek, poet, professor, editor, publisher, translator and legendary Canadian man of letters, passed away on March 22, 2001.
		Robin Blaser called Dudek “Canada’s most important—that is to say, consequential modern voice.” Les éditions Triptyque wrote that “Louis Dudek se situe au premier rang.
		Dudek came to Vancouver in the summer of 1962 to teach a summer course at UBC attended by several of the young writers who were producing the Tish poetry
	www.dcbooks.ca /eternalconversations.html (415 words)

	Canadian Man of Letters Louis Dudek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Poet, teacher, publisher, essayist, translator and editor Louis Dudek was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1918.
		Louis Dudek, literary legend, continues to provoke and delight readers of all ages and all perceptions.
		Louis Dudek, O.C., M.A., Ph.D., is one of the pre-eminent figures
	www.progression.net /~prma1753/ZapDudek.htm (826 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)