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Irving Layton : Biographies and Portraits



Biographies and Portraits

  • Callwood, June. "The Lusty Laureate from the Slums." Toronto Star Weekly 6 February 1960: 10-12, 21. Reprinted in Irving Layton: The Poet and His Critics. Ed. Seymour Mayne. 107-16.
  • Cameron, Elspeth. Irving Layton: A Portrait. Don Mills, Ontario: Stoddart, 1985.
  • Flynn, Kevin. "Balanced on Wooden Stilts and Dancing: What Irving Layton Taught Me about Leonard Cohen." Essays on Canadian Writing 69 (Winter 1999): 9-11.
  • Gustafson, Ralph. "The Grand Style: A Retrospective Look at the Career of One of Our Most Distinguished Poets." Books in Canada 20.9 (December 1991): 28-29.
  • Layton, David. "Irving Layton, Leonard Cohen, and Other Recurring Nightmares." Saturday Night 111.2 (March 1996): 34, 36, 38, 40, 42-43.
  • Layton, David. Motion Sickness: A Memoir. Toronto: Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1999.
  • "Layton, Irving (Peter)." Contemporary Canadian Authors. Ed. Robert Lang. Toronto: Gale Canada, 1996. 1:259-63.
  • Mansbridge, Francis. Irving Layton: God's Recording Angel. Toronto: ECW Press, 1995.
  • O'Rourke, David. "A Memoir of Layton and Callaghan." Poetry Canada Review 9.1 (Fall 1987): 14-15.


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