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Patrick Anderson (1915-1979)
Patrick Anderson was born in Surrey, England, and studied at Oxford University
before accepting a Commonwealth Fellowship to Columbia University in New
York. He then taught for six years at a private school in Montreal, during
which time he and his wife, Peggy Doernbach - edited a series of short-lived literary newsletters
(The Andersons, The victory broadsheet and En Masse), all of which
reflected the Andersons' Marxist politics. In 1942 he founded Preview
magazine, which almost immediately became influential through the publication
(many for the first time)
of poets including A.M. Klein, P.K. Page and F.R. Scott. The didacticism
of Anderson's early poetry, A tent for April (1945) and The white
centre (1946), eventually matured into the richly metaphorical work
in The colour as naked (1953). He left Canada and returned to Britain
where his hand turned to autobiography and travel writing. His later poetry
was collected in two volumes: A visiting distance - poems: new, revised,
and selected (1976) and Return to Canada (1977).
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