263:...hearing Klein roll off the Virgilian hexameters in a beautiful orotund voice that rose above the traffic, I think it was then that I realized how lovely and very moving the sound of poetry could be. I must confess my Latin wasn't sufficient to appreciate the sense that Virgil was making with his marvelous hexameters, but Klein's zeal and enthusiasm, his forceful delivery, his very genuine love of language, of poetry, all came through to me at that time. And I think that was most fortunate for me. ...
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took the required legal action to divorce Betty, which he had neglected to do until this time. In 1981 a daughter, Samantha Clara, was born to
Harriet and Irving. The marriage ended in a bitterly contested divorce. Layton then met Anna (Annette) Pottier and invited her to be his housekeeper, although it soon became apparent that she would play a far greater role in his life. Although 48 years his junior she became his fifth and last wife. They lived briefly in
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who became a writer, critic and academic. Layton delivering many lectures and readings throughout Canada. Layton pursued his PhD in 1948, but he abandoned it due to the demands of his already hectic professional life. In 1976, he received an honorary doctorate from
Concordia University.
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in 1959 secured Layton's national reputation while the many books of poetry that followed eventually gave him an international reputation, never as high however, in the United States and
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Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1961. (poems and stories)
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Like one that dreamed : a portrait of A.M. Klein
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in the fall of 1982 and then spent nearly a year in
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1038:. Toronto: McGill-Queens University Press, 1990.
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1150:. TV Ontario, 1984. 14 mins. (video cassette)
1066:. New York: Folkways Records, 1957. Includes
796:The Unwavering Eye: Selected Poems, 1969–1975
790:The Darkening Fire: Selected Poems, 1945–1968
133:Irving Layton was born on March 12, 1912, as
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1156:. League of Canadian Poets, 1982. (cassette)
900:A Wild Peculiar Joy: Selected Poems, 1945–82
748:The Whole Bloody Bird: Obs, Aphs & Pomes
470:, before moving to the Montreal district of
1160:A Wild Peculiar Joy: Selected Poems 1945–82
1102:. Jewish Public Library, c.1967. (cassette)
1090:. Jewish Public Library, c.1965. (cassette)
1974:Canadian people of Romanian-Jewish descent
1138:. Saidye Bronfman Center, 1976. (cassette)
954:. Toronto:McClelland & Stewart, 1986.
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971:. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1987.
883:. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1980.
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720:. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1964.
702:. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1959.
614:. Montreal: First Statement Press, 1948.
608:. Montreal: First Statement Press, 1945.
496:Good As Gone: My Life With Irving Layton
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267:Klein published Layton's first poem in
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1999:Governor General's Award-winning poets
1826:“Canadian Jewish Poetry: A Roundtable”
956:Dance With Desire: Selected Love Poems
714:Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1963.
494:In 2015 Pottier published her memoir,
1989:Neurological disease deaths in Quebec
1862:Canadian Poetry Online: Irving Layton
1180:Celebration: Famous Canadian Poets CD
989:Fornalutx: Selected Poems, 1928–1990.
786:. Athens: Hermias Publications, 1974.
491:at the age of 93 on January 4, 2006.
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1459:(Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988), 1190–1191.
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1126:. Trent University, 1975. (cassette)
958:. Toronto: Porcupine’s Quill, 1992.
760:The Collected Poems of Irving Layton
557:were among those who gave eulogies.
354:Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
1529:"Good as Gone | Dundurn Press"
826:The Selected Poems of Irving Layton
784:Seventy-five Greek Poems, 1951–1974
612:Now Is The Place: Stories and Poems
587:, in which he will be portrayed by
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1114:. High Barnet, c. 1972. (cassette)
913:Shadows on the Ground: A Portfolio
828:. New York: New Directions, 1977.
281:Emerging poet: the 1930s and 1940s
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1418:"A hot-blooded poet, trailblazer"
1154:A Poetry Reading by Irving Layton
983:Final Reckoning: Poems, 1982–1986
877:. Toronto: Madison Gallery, 1979.
352:developed into activism with the
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2009:Officers of the Order of Canada
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857:The Love Poems of Irving Layton
690:. Toronto: Contact Press, 1956.
667:. Toronto: Contact Press, 1956.
661:. Toronto: Contact Press, 1955.
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637:. Toronto: Contact Press, 1953.
350:Young People's Socialist League
229:Young People's Socialist League
1391:Small Magazines, Big Influence
1175:, online at CBC Words at Large
1100:Irving Layton Reads His Poetry
908:, online at CBC Words at Large
415:Sir George Williams University
376:1950s: International "stardom"
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1142:An Evening with Irving Layton
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1106:An Evening with Irving Layton
952:Dance With Desire: Love Poems
871:. Toronto: Virgo Press, 1979.
712:Balls for a One-Armed Juggler
665:The Bull Calf and Other Poems
567:An online scholarly journal,
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1913:Poet: Irving Layton Observed
1025:— Toronto: Macmillan, 1989.
2034:20th-century Romanian poets
1954:20th-century Canadian poets
1815:"The Jewish Public Library"
1650:Irving Layton: Publications
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1451:September 20, 2008, at the
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1183:Canadian Poetry Association
1171:"There Were No Signs" from
946:A Spider Danced a Cosy Jig.
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485:Maimonides Geriatric Centre
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814:The Poems of Irving Layton
730:Periods of the Moon: Poems
516:Nobel Prize for Literature
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1867:January 10, 2006, at the
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894:Europe And Other Bad News
881:For My Neighbours in Hell
618:The Black Huntsmen: Poems
536:Petrarch Award for Poetry
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1979:Canadian modernist poets
1964:Anglophone Quebec people
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1124:A Red Carpet for the Sun
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700:A Red Carpet for the Sun
641:In the Midst of My Fever
528:A Red Carpet for the Sun
524:Governor-General's Award
395:A Red Carpet for the Sun
223:. He was befriended by
135:Israel Pincu Lazarovitch
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2019:People from Târgu Neamț
1969:Jewish Canadian writers
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1742:Layton, Irving (1986).
1369:Waiting for the Messiah
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675:William Carlos Williams
635:Love the Conqueror Worm
476:Waiting For the Messiah
1693:Caplan, Usher (1982).
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1088:Poems of Irving Layton
694:A Laughter in the Mind
659:The Cold Green Element
520:Gabriel GarcĂa Márquez
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2014:Writers from Montreal
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863:Droppings from Heaven
772:Lovers and Lesser Men
736:The Shattered Plinths
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851:The Tightrope Dancer
808:For my Brother Jesus
718:The Laughing Rooster
647:The Long Pea-Shooter
419:Concordia University
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1984:Canadian socialists
1959:Canadian male poets
1709:McGraw-Hill Ryerson
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1173:A Wild Peculiar Joy
906:A Wild Peculiar Joy
875:There Were No Signs
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472:Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
464:Niagara-on-the-Lake
443:The Book of Longing
104:Irving Peter Layton
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1575:Irving and Leonard
1498:"'A quiet madman'"
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1389:Bronwyn Chester, "
1322:Chatham Daily News
1064:Six Montreal Poets
706:The Swinging Flesh
673:. Introduction by
653:The Blue Propeller
329:literary magazines
1287:T. Jacobs. 2001.
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