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Patrick John MacAllister Anderson

Patrick John MacAllister Anderson, 4 August 1915, Ashtead - 17 March 1979, Halstead, Essex

English-born Canadian poet whose writings are characterised by a rapid juxtaposition of contrasting images that reflects mainly the influence of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Educated at the University of Oxford and Columbia University, Anderson settled in Montreal as a teacher and professor at McGill University from 1940 to 1950, when Canadian writing was emerging as a vigorous modern literature. He was instrumental in establishing the communist-leaning literary magazine Preview; he also wrote sensuous descriptions of nature that revitalised traditional lyrical praise of the Canadian landscape. The collections A Tent for April (1945) and The White Centre (1946) were followed by The Colour as Naked (1953), which drew upon his Canadian experiences as well as life in Malaya (1950-52) and England. (He lived his later life in both Canada and England.) Search Me (1957) is autobiographical, and Over the Alps: Reflections on Travel and Travel Writing (1969) is concerned mainly with the grand tours taken in the 18th and 19th centuries by the Scottish biographer James Boswell, by the author of Vathek, William Beckford, and by Lord Byron. Anderson's last published work was Return to Canada: Selected Poems (1977).

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		The Character Ball Patrick John MacAllister Anderson: Published ?
		The Colour as Naked Patrick John MacAllister Anderson: Published 1953
		Dolphin Days - a Literary Companion to Mediterranean Pleasures Patrick John MacAllister Anderson: Published 1963 by Gollancz
		Eros - an anthology Patrick John MacAllister Anderson and Alistair Sutherland: Published 1961 by Citadel Press
		Finding out about the Athenians Patrick John MacAllister Anderson: Published ?
		First Steps in Greece Patrick John MacAllister Anderson: Published 1958
		Foxed! Patrick John MacAllister Anderson: Published 1972 by Chatto & Windus
		Over the Alps - Reflections on Travel and Travel Writing (with special reference to the Grand Tours of Boswell, Beckford and Byron) Patrick John MacAllister Anderson: Published 1969 by Rupert Hart-Davis
		Return to Canada - Selected Poems Patrick John MacAllister Anderson: Published 1977
		Search Me - autobiography/the black country/Canada and Spain Patrick John MacAllister Anderson: Published 1957 by Chatto and Windus
		Smile of Apollo Patrick John MacAllister Anderson: Published ?
		Snake Wine Patrick John MacAllister Anderson: Published ?
		A Tent for April Patrick John MacAllister Anderson: Published 1945 by First Statement
		The White Centre Patrick John MacAllister Anderson: Published 1946 by Ryerson

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