The Earle Birney – Malcolm Lowry Connection.
The eminent Canadian poet, Earle Birney (1904–95), and the late modernist writer, Malcolm Lowry (1909–57), shared not only a supportive friendship in Vancouver (ignited by Sybil Hutchinson in 1947) involving the patronage of each other's verses. Their deeper connections were rooted in shared experie...
| Publicado en: | University of Toronto Quarterly Vol. 91; no. 2; pp. 49 - 78 |
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