The Complete Poems of A. J. M. Smith

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Arthur James Marshall Smith (1902 – 1980) was a prominent member of the Montreal Group of poets, including Leon Edel, Leo Kennedy, A. M. Klein, and F. R. Scott, who distinguished t hemselves by their modernism in a culture still largely Victorian. Essentially Canadian, his poem The Lonely Land (p. 228) was inspired by a Group of Seven exhibition, while other poems refer to Marshall McLuhan and A Fat Willing Girl of Toronto. Show more