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A.J.M. Smith’s Eclectic Surrealism
From: The Canadian Modernists Meet
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Several of Smith’s poems of the 1930s and early 1940s, especially those published from 1934 to 1936 during the Surrealist craze in London, show his distinct attraction to Surrealist ideas and effects, including imagery
and its associative accumulation; automatic writing; surreal treatments of setting and landscape; the notion of "black humour"; and a cryptic but clearly emancipatory politics refusing alignment, like André Breton’s,
with the right, left or soft left demanded by the times.
Contributors
Brian Trehearne
Brian Trehearne teaches Canadian literature, modernism, and creative writing at McGill University. He is the author of Aestheticism and the Canadian Modernists: Aspects of a Poetic Influence (1989) and The Montreal Forties: Modernist Poetry in Transition (1999). He is the General Editor of the Canadian Modern Poetry: Texts and Contexts series for Canadian Poetry Press and is currently editing scholarly editions of the complete poems of A.J.M. Smith and John Glassco.
