Robert Finch (poet)

Robert Finch (poet)

Robert Duer Claydon Finch (14 May 1900 - 11 June 1995) was a Canadian academic and poet. [ [http://www.track0.com/ogwc/authors/finch_r.html writing in canada: authors: robert finch ] ] [ [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0002814 Finch, Robert Duer Claydon ] ] He was a professor of French at the University of Toronto for three decades, and an expert on French poetry. Finch wrote several well regarded works of poetry and he won twice the Governor General's Award for English language poetry or drama.

Bibliography

* "New Provinces: Poems of Several Authors" (one of six poets in a collection) - 1936
* "Poems" - 1946
* "The Strength of the Hills" - 1948
* "A Century has Roots" - 1953
* "Acis in Oxford and Other Poems" - 1959
* "Dover Beach Revisited and Other Poems" - 1961
* "Silverthorn Bush and Other Poem" - 1966

References

External links

* [http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol18/trehearne1.htm Finch's Early Poetry ]
* [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0002814 Robert Finch's] entry in [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=HomePage&Params=A1 The Canadian Encyclopedia]


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