Macpherson Jean Jay (1 results)

Condition: Very Good. Original Jean Jay Macpherson (1931-2012): a collection of personal letters to her family, including 13 signed, typed letters to her father, plus associated ephemera and correspondence from her mother Dorothy and brother Andrew, 1941-1958. Includes a 2pp TLS written shortly after publication of her first book 'Nineteen Poems' Correspondence includes: Nine handwritten signed letters from Andrea McPherson to their father, on airmail envelopes + one telegram; National Film Board of Canada envelopes and letterheads on some of the typed signed letters to McPherson from Dorothy- 7 letters; 13 typed letters on Canadian Airmail paper, signed Jean/Jay to her father + 1 telegram; 3 x h/w signed letters from Helen Kemp Frye, dated 1960-63 / Jay Macpherson, born Jean Jay Macpherson in Canada (1931- 2012) was a Canadian lyric poet and scholar whose notable works were The Boatman and Welcoming Disaster. Notable awards Governor General's Award, Levinson Prize. The Encyclop¾dia Britannica calls her "a member of 'the mythopoeic school of poetry,' who expressed serious religious and philosophical themes in symbolic verse that was often lyrical or comic." Macpherson published poetry in Contemporary Verse in 1949. Her first book was published in 1952. In 1954 Macpherson began her own small press, Emblem Books, which published her second volume, O Earth Return. Macpherson taught English at Victoria College from 1957 until 1996 and became a Professor of English in 1974. Macpherson has been described "as a 'mythopoeic' poet Ð rooted in the teachings of Frye, the archetypes of Carl Jung, and the intensely conservative social vision of T.S. Eliot." Welcoming Disaster Macpherson's next major work (1974), "employs more complex forms to pursue its quest for meaning; the poems frequently succeed in maintaining imaginative contact with social reality while extending Macpherson's essential concern with psychological and metaphysical conditions." Macpherson won Poetry magazine's Levinson Prize, and the University of Western Ontario President's Medal, in 1957. She won the Governor General's Award for The Boatman in 1958. Very good. Signedes.