Antimodernist Antecedents in Early Canadian Modernism: Archibald MacMechan's "A Ballade of Canadian Literature" and F.R. Scott's "the Canadian Authors Meet"

Archibald MacMechan's regular column in the Montreal Standard entitled "The Dean's Window" (1906-1933) is an important index to educated antimodernist literary values. MacMechan brought his reading of world literature into his appraisals of the Canadian scene, through his groundb...

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Published inThe American review of Canadian studies Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 394 - 412
Main Author Narbonne, André
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Routledge 03.07.2019
Taylor & Francis Inc
Subjects
Archibald MacMechan
Canadian criticism
Canadian literature
Dean's window
early modernism
educated antimodernism
Founding
Literary history
MacMechan, Archibald
Modernism
Poetry
Scott, F. R. (Francis Reginald), 1899-1985
Values
Writers
Canada
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Summary:Archibald MacMechan's regular column in the Montreal Standard entitled "The Dean's Window" (1906-1933) is an important index to educated antimodernist literary values. MacMechan brought his reading of world literature into his appraisals of the Canadian scene, through his groundbreaking work, Headwaters of Canadian Literature(1924). In a 1912 "Dean's Window" column, MacMechan, a published poet, opened with a poem of his own, "The Ballade of Canadian Literature," which anticipated F.R. Scott's "The Canadian Authors Meet"-itself a seminal work of early Canadian modernism. By no means binaries, the degree to which modernism and antimodernism could resemble each other is manifest in MacMechan's and Scott's poems, even though Scott's poem eviscerates the Canadian Authors Association, an organization of which MacMechan was a founding member.
ISSN:0272-2011
1943-9954
DOI:10.1080/02722011.2019.1650084