The Montreal Group was an influential coterie of poets associated with McGill University during the interwar years who aimed to introduce a new Modernist sensibility into Canadian poetics. A.J.M. Smith and F.R. Scott were the core members of the group, but it quickly grew to include A.M. Klein, Leon Edel, Robert Finch, and others. Beginning with little magazines such as the Literary Supplement of the McGill Daily (1924-25), the McGill Fortnightly Review (1925-27), and the Canadian Mercury (1928-29), the movement culminated in the publication of New Provinces (1936), the seminal anthology of early Canadian Modernism. This course will trace how the Montreal Group eschewed the outworn Romanticism that had dominated Canadian poetry since the nineteenth century in favour of the broader range of themes, techniques, and complexities of twentieth-century poets such as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W.H. Auden, and others, towards heralding a Modernist renaissance in Canadian poetics.
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