George Johnston fonds [textual record, graphic material, philatelic record]
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George Johnston fonds [textual record, graphic material, philatelic record]
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Finding aid Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid provides a descriptive list of the contents of volumes 1 to 15 and a file list of volumes 16-26. MSS1193 (90: Open)
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Record information George Johnston fonds [textual record, graphic material, philatelic record]
Date:1942-[2000].Reference:R4550-0-7-E, MG31-D95Type of material:Textual material, Art, Photographs, Stamps and stamp productsFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:103486Date(s):1942-[2000].Bilingual equivalent:Place of creation:CanadaExtent:3.95 m of textual records.
10 photographs : b&w and col.
8 prints : 5 linocut, woodcut and 2 photomechanical reproduction.
4 postage stamps.
1 pane of postage stamps.
30 volumes : various bindings ; 10 x 16 x 0.4 cm to 24 x 33.5 x 1.2 cm.Language of material:EnglishScope and content:The fonds consists of the personal records of George Johnston. Included are a correspondence series, including letters from other writers and scholars, documenting Johnston's career as a poet and translator, and a writings and translations series, including drafts of Johnston's translations, reviews of his books of poetry, material on his critical and biographical writings, and other records.
The fonds also contains Christmas and greetings cards sent to George and Jeanne Johnston and photographs documenting a reading tour of Great Britain, 1980, by George Johnston and poets bill bissett and Susan Musgrave.
The fonds also contains 30 of Johnston's diaries often with indexes, describing, literary events, teaching, meeting with other writers and editors as well as travel, family life, farm life and keeping house. Includes comments and feelings on the exchanges and events detailed, and on material read.Provenance:Biography/Administrative history:Johnston, George, 1913-2004 : George Johnston, born in 1913 in Hamilton, Ont., was educated at the University of Toronto. After serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force (R.C.A.F.) during the Second World War, Johnston taught at Mount Allison University from 1947 to 1949 and then moved to Ottawa where he joined the English Department of Carleton College (later Carleton University) in 1950. He retired in 1980, moving to a farm in Athelstan where he kept bees and continued to write. Johnston, who married Jeanne McCrae in 1944, has six children. During his years in Ottawa, he was a member of the Religious Society of Friends.
George Johnston is the author of several collections of poetry, including "The Cruising Auk" (1959), "Home free" (1966), "Happy enough" (1972), "Taking a grip" (1979), "Auk Redivivus" (1981) and "Endeared by dark: the collected poems" (1990). He was a professor of Old Norse and Anglo-Saxon at Carleton University and is an internationally-known scholar and translator. He has published translations of a number of Icelandic sagas, including "The saga of Gisli" (1963), "The Faroe Islanders" saga' (1975) and "The Greenlanders' saga" (1976), as well as compiling and translating an anthology of Faroese poetry, "Rocky shores" (1981), and translating poems of the Norwegian poet Knut Odegard, "Wind over Romsdal" (1982) and "Bee-buzz, Salmon Leap" (1989).
Johnston is also the editor of the "Collected poems of George Whalley" (1986) and the author of "Carl, portrait of a painter" (1986), about the artist Carl Schaefer. His contributions to literature have been recognized by honorary degrees from Queen's and Carleton, an issue of "Malahat review" was devoted to him and a festschrift, "The Old enchanter: a portrait of George Johnston", was published in 1999.Additional information:General note:Received between 1978 and 2000 from George Johnston of Huntingdon, Québec. Diaries received in 2021 from Bob Johnston.Subject heading:- Oral interpretation of poetry, n.d., 1980-[1989] League of Canadian Poets, 1942-1990
- Poets, Scandinavian, [between 1942 and 1990] The Saga of Gisli, 1963
- George Benson Johnston - Manuscripts, 1959-1983 The Faroe Islanders' Saga, 1975
- George Benson Johnston - Authorship, 1959-1983 The Greenlanders Saga, 1976
- Scholars - Great Britain, [between 1942 and 1990] Carl, Portrait of a Painter, 1986
- Peter Foote - Correspondence, [between 1942 and 1990] The Collected Poems of George Whalley
- Gael Turnbull - Correspondence, [between 1942 and 1990] Endeared by Dark
- Poets, British, [between 1942 and 1990] Susan Musgrave, 1980
- Theodore Enslin - Correspondence, [between 1942 and 1990] bill bissett, 1980
- Poets, American, [between 1942 and 1990] "Barbara"
- Olafur Johann Sigurdsson - Correspondence, [between 1942 and 1990] "Bee-buzz, Salmon Leap"
- Christian Matras - Corresondence, [between 1942 and 1990] Eagle's Blood
- Karsten Hoydal - Correspondence, [between 1942 and 1990] The Lay of Thyrm, Rock Shores
- Knut Odegard - Correspondence, [between 1942 and 1990] "Viga-Glum"
- John Metcalf - Correspondence, [between 1942 and 1990] Wind Over Romsdal, 1982
- John Flood - Correspondence, [between 1942 and 1990] George Faludy
- Editors - Correspondence, [between 1942 and 1990] Gunnar Hoydal
- Editors - Canada, [between 1942 and 1990] Karsten Hoydal
- Publishers - Correspondence, [between 1942 and 1990] Steinbjorn Jacobsen
- Publishers and publishing - Canada, [between 1942 and 1990] Marianne Larsen
- George Whalley - Correspondence, [between 1942 and 1990] Christian Matras
- William Blissett - Correspondence, [between 1942 and 1990] Sigmund Mjelve
- W.J. (William John) Keith - Correspondence, [between 1942 and 1990] Roi Patursson
- Northrop Frye - Correspondence, [between 1942 and 1990]
- Scholars - Canada, [between 1942 and 1990]
- Gerald Trottier - Correspondence, [between 1942 and 1990]
- Carl Schaefer - Correspondence, [between 1942 and 1990]
- Raymond Souster - Correspondence, [between 1942 and 1990]
- P.K. (Patricia Kathleen) Page - Correspondence, [between 1942 and 1990]
- John Glassco - Correspondence, [between 1942 and 1990]
- Earle Birney - Correspondence, [between 1942 and 1990]
- Scholars - Correspondence, [between 1942 and 1990]
- Poets, Canadian - Correspondnence, [between 1942 and 1990]
- Poets, Canadian, 1942-1990
- Authors, Scandinavian, 1942-1990
- Scandinavian literature, 1942-1990
- George Benson Johnston - Correspondence, 1942-1990
- Scandinavian literature - Translations in English, 19-
- Scandinavian poetry, [between 1942 and 1990]
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