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William Frank Blissett fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1950-1990.

Reference:

R4531-0-8-E, MG31-D226

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

105989

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William Frank Blissett fonds
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Fonds includes:

2 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1950-1990.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

10 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of correspondence 1950-1990 from the Canadian poet and translator George Johnston, with one file relating to William Blissett's interview with George Johnston published in the Malahat Review 1987.

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Blissett, William, 1921-

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Blissett, William, 1921- : William Blissett was born in Saskatchewan and educated there and in British Columbia, where he graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1943. He continued his studies at the University of Toronto, receiving his doctorate in 1950. He taught English at the University of Saskatchewan, 1950-1960, and Huron College, London, Ontario, 1960-1965, before joining the faculty at the University of Toronto in 1965.

Blissett was the editor of the University of Toronto Quarterly from 1965 to 1976. He is the author of a study of the English artist and writer David Jones, The Long Conversation: a memoir of David Jones, as well as many articles on Jones, Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare and other writers.

While Blissett was a student at the University of Toronto, he met the poet George Johnston with whom he became life-long friends. George Johnston is the author of a number of collections of poetry, including The Cruising Auk (1959), Home Free (1966), Happy Enough (1972), Taking a Grip (1978), the selected poems Auk Redivivus (1981) and the collected poems Endeared by Dark (1990). He has also translated Old Norse sagas, including The Saga of Gisli (1963), The Faroe Islanders' Saga (1974) and The Greenlanders' Saga (1975), as well as Scandinavian poetry. His study of the Canadian artist Carl Schaefer, Carl, Portrait of a Painter, was published in 1986.

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Textual records (Electronic) Finding aid 1889 provides a descriptive list of the fonds. MSS1889 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000459.pdf

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General note:

Received in 1991 from William Blissett of Toronto, Ontario
Subject heading:

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Poets, Canadian, [1950-1990] George Johnston, 1950-1990

Poets, Canadian - Correspondence, [1950-1990]

George Johnston - Family, [1950-1990]

George Johnston - Interviews, 1986-1987
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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118-020140-X

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MG31-D226
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Finding aid box [FA 1889] 138

[Consultation 10 Closed]

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