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Arthur James Marshall Smith

アーサー・ジェームズ・マーシャル・スミス

Āsā Jeimuzu Māsharu Sumisu

別名: A. J. M. Smith

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1902-11-08 (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
死没
1980-11-21 (East Lansing, Michigan, United States) 78歳
国籍
Canadian, American
言語
English
居住地歴
Montreal, Quebec, Canada → England (1918-1920) → Near Magog, Quebec (summers)

経歴

職業
Professor, Poet, Anthologist
活動期間
1921年〜1980年
所属
Michigan State University, Royal Society of Canada
所属団体
Montreal Group, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC)
影響を受けた人物
T. S. Eliot, Imagists, War poets
影響を与えた人物
F. R. Scott, A. M. Klein

学歴

McGill University
Literature
学位: BA/MA
期間: 1921-1925
卒業年: 1925
国: Canada
Undergraduate and graduate studies; edited McGill Daily Literary Supplement and co-founded McGill Fortnightly Review.
University of Edinburgh
Literature
学位: PhD
期間: 1920s-1931
卒業年: 1931
国: United Kingdom
Doctorate received.

受賞歴

Governor General's Award
1943
対象作品: News of the Phoenix and Other Poems
部門: 英語詩・ドラマ部門
主催: Governor General of Canada
結果: 受賞
Lorne Pierce Medal
1966
主催: Royal Society of Canada
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

News of the Phoenix and Other Poems

1943年 Poetry

Smith's first collection of poetry, winner of the Governor General's Award.

Canadian themesModernism

The Lonely Land

1929年 Poem

Famous poem inspired by a Group of Seven exhibition.

Canadian landscape
映像化・舞台化
  • [Music] / Violet Archer (1978)

全著作

  • News of the Phoenix and Other Poems (1943)
  • A Sort of Ecstasy (1954)
  • Collected Poems (1962)
  • Poems New and Collected (1967)
  • The Classic Shade: Selected Poems (1978)
  • Complete Poems of A.J.M. Smith (2006)

作風・主題

文体
ModernismInfluenced by Imagism
頻出モチーフ
Canadian landscapeNature and humanity

評価・遺産

Key figure in advancing modernism in Canadian poetry, member of the Montreal Group, renowned anthologist who modernized literary standards in Canada.

大衆文化への影響

  • Poem 'The Lonely Land' set to music by Violet Archer (1978).

豆知識

  • Prominent member of the Montreal Group.
  • Professor at Michigan State University until 1972.