Jay MacPherson

Tanis MacDonald (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Ed. by Cynthia Sugars, University of Ottawa
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

Born 13 Jun 1931
Died 21 Mar 2012
Activity 1952-2012

Places

Born in England
Active in Canada

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Poet

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MacPherson's Works

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Jean “Jay” Macpherson was a Canadian poet and 18th-century scholar, and a winner of the 1958 Governor General’s Award for Poetry for

The Boatman,

as well as

Poetry

’s Levinson Prize and the E.J. Pratt Medal. Born in England, she immigrated to Canada in 1940, and became a professor at the University of Toronto from 1957 to 1996. Her work was influenced by William Blake and T.S. Eliot and by her lifelong devotion to verse forms. Macpherson died in Toronto, Ontario, in 2012. The Dupont Parkette at Avenue Road was re-named Jay Macpherson Green in her honour in 2015.

Born in London, England, on 13 June 1931 to James Ewan Macpherson and Dorothy Macpherson, Jean “Jay” Macpherson was raised in the Hampstead area and came to Canada with her mother and elder brother, Andrew, in 1940 as a

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Citation: MacDonald, Tanis. "Jay MacPherson". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 December 2019 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5258, accessed 21 November 2024.]