James Reaney

James Reaney (1926-2008), born on a farm in South Easthope, near Stratford in Ontario, with a doctorate from the University of Toronto under Northrop Frye, taught English at the University of Manitoba and then at Western Ontario, nearly forty years in all. A poet first, three times winner of the Governor General's Award between 1949 and 1962, founder of a magazine devoted to the iconography of the imagination, he moved into the theatre and drew from the massacre of a family in a neighbouring township a trilogy regarded as a classic of the Canadian stage. Married to the poet Colleen Thibaudeau, he died in London.

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• TheatreColours in the DarkJames Reaney · 1967Literature