Background
Gustafson, Ralph Barker was born on August 16, 1909 in Lime Ridge, Quebec, Canada. Son of Carl Otto and Gertrude Ella (Barker) Gustafson.
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"The value of his work is not that it is narrowly "relevant" to topical fashions or news events . . . But that it is written out of a fully orchestrated consciousness which takes as its frame of referance the entire panorama of what we have been and are becoming." -George Amabile.
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Gustafson, Ralph Barker was born on August 16, 1909 in Lime Ridge, Quebec, Canada. Son of Carl Otto and Gertrude Ella (Barker) Gustafson.
Bachelor, Master of Arts, Bishops University, 1930. Data Control Language (honorary), Bishops University, 1977. Bachelor, Master of Arts, Oxford University, England, 1933.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Mount Allison University, 1973. Doctor of Letters (honorary), York University, 1991.
Music master, Bishops College School, 1930; master, St. Alban's Boys School, Ontario, 1934; with, British Information Services, 1942-1946; professor, university poet, Bishop's U., Lennoxville, Quebec, 1963-1979; music critic, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, since 1960; Member various award juries, Canada Council representative, Canada poet to United Kingdom, 1972; representative, Canada poet to Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1976; representative, Canada poet to Washington, 1977; representative, Canada poet to Italy, 1981, 82. Professor emeritus Bishop's U., 1992.
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( Gustafson is one of those rare poets whose every book ...)
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Member Keble Association, Oxford (life), League Canada Poets (life), Writers Union Canada M C.
Married Elisabeth Renninger, October 4, 1958.