Livesay, Dorothy

Livesay, Dorothy

▪ Canadian poet
in full  Dorothy Kathleen May Livesay 
born October 12, 1909, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
died December 29, 1996, Victoria, British Columbia

      Canadian lyric poet whose sensitive and reflective works spanned six decades.

      Livesay attended several schools, including the Sorbonne in Paris (1931–32), where a study of French Symbolist (Symbolist movement) poets influenced her own work. A second formative element was her experience in Montreal as a social worker during the Depression and an affinity for the social gospel of such poets of the 1930s as C. Day-Lewis (Day-Lewis, C.), Stephen Spender (Spender, Sir Stephen), and W.H. Auden (Auden, W H). Notable among her collections are Day and Night (1944), Poems for People (1947), Call My People Home (1950), Selected Poems and New Poems (both 1957), The Unquiet Bed (1967), and Phases of Love (1983). Her Collected Poems appeared in 1972. Among Livesay's prose works are the children's book Beginnings: A Winnipeg Childhood (1975; originally published as A Winnipeg Childhood) and The Husband (1990), a novella. A memoir, Journey with My Selves, was published in 1991. Livesay received numerous awards, including the Governor General's award for poetry (1944, 1947). In 1987 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

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