Biography Fred Cogswell
Născut în 1917, în East Contreville, provincia Brunswick, Canada. Poet și critic literar. Studii la Universitatea din New Brunswick (Canada) și Edinburg (Anglia). Profesor de literatură engeză la Universitatea New Brunswick. Redactor șef al revistei literare "The Fiddlehead", una dintre cele mai apreciate ale continentului american. Opere: "The Haloed Tree" (1956); "Lost Dimension" (1960); "Star People" (1968); "Light Bird of Life - Selected Poems (1974).
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Fred Cogswell, CM (November 8, 1917- June 20, 2004) was a Canadian poet.
Born in East Centreville, New Brunswick he served overseas in the Canadian Army during the Second World War. A teacher at the age of sixteen, Cogswell gained a BA(Hons) and MA at the University of New Brunswick and received a PhD from Edinburgh University. He later became a professor of English at the University of New Brunswick, a position he held from 1952 to 1983.
In 1958, Cogswell and a group of students and faculty from the University of New Brunswick founded Fiddlehead Poetry Books, now one of Canada's important small press publishers operating as Goose Lane Editions.
Fred Cogswell was made a member of the Order of Canada in 1981.
Selected bibliography
The Stunted Strong, 1954 (republished 2004)
The Best Notes Merge, 1988, Borealis Press, ISBN 0-88887-899-0
Black and White Tapestry, 1989, Borealis Press, ISBN 0-88887-915-6
Watching An Eagle, 1991, Borealis Press
In Praise of Old Music, 1992, Borealis Press, ISBN 0-88887-134-1
When the Right Light Shines, 1992, Borealis Press, ISBN 0-88887-124-4
In My Own Growing, 1993, Borealis Press, ISBN 0-88887-113-9
As I See It, 1994, ISBN 0-88887-150-3
The Trouble With Light, 1996, Borealis Press, ISBN 0-88887-140-6
Folds, 1997, ISBN 0-88887-171-6
A Double Question, 1999
With Vision Added, 2000
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