For most of his life, he had been a relatively obscure literary figure: His poems that were published infrequently from 1928 until the early 1960's received little critical attention (Sutherland 82, 97), and only in the 1960’s did he gain prominence as a translator of French Canadian verse and as a poet in his own right. John Glassco (1909-1981) and his works first received sustained international attention in 1970, upon the publication of his Memoirs of Montparnasse. John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, 22-23 This is to be the book of my youth, my golden age.” Lived – before the onset of death or the inevitable dullness of a mature outlook: “I would like to continue my record of those years – the years in which I really The essay I'm submitting to McGill and WLU to demonstrate my academic orientation.
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