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Woodcock, George was born on May 8, 1912 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Son of Samuel Arthur and Margaret Gertrude (Lewis) Woodcock.
( In Dawn and the Darkest Hour, poet and author George Wo...)
In Dawn and the Darkest Hour, poet and author George Woodcock explores the famously complex life and career of Aldous Huxley. A brilliant and satirical novelist of ideas; a popular journalist and essayist on scientific and political subjects; a prophet of the future (Brave New World); a pioneer of psychedelic experimentation (The Doors of Perception), Huxley was a man plagued by excessive intellectual curiosity and a withdrawn melancholic nature. In the dramatic range of his characters and the encyclopedic quality of his thought, Huxley expressed some of the most interesting and disturbing commentary about the condition of human beings and their relationship to society. As Woodcock traced the progress of Huxley’s works, he recognized attempts to bring about a synthesis of knowledge “that would give total meaning to existence.” In this striking and encompassing critical biography, Woodcock persuasively asks us to reconsider Huxley’s works as the stages of “a spiritual pilgrimage,” as he demonstrates that Huxley’s entire remarkable oeuvre must be taken as a whole, as a unified “movement out of darkness toward light.” It is a fascinating journey that provides a window into Huxley’s life and character, that shows an intellectual continually striving for knowledge—intuitive, scientific and otherwise—and as such, is certain to renew interest in one of the most the most important and influential minds of the twentieth century. George Woodcock (1912 1995)—award-winning poet, author, essayist and widely known as a literary journalist and historian—published more than 90 titles on history, biography, philosophy, poetry and literary criticism.
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( During his lifetime, Herbert Read (1893–1968) acquired ...)
During his lifetime, Herbert Read (1893–1968) acquired a considerable international reputation. Poet and anarchist; novelist and biographer; critic of art, literature, and life; aesthetic philosopher; and revolutionary theorist of education, Read was in a unique place as an interpreter of his time. Few writers have probed so deeply into the nature of the prevailing culture, and none brought together the insights of modern philosophers and critics, poets and artists, psychologists and social scientists, as Read did. Best known as an art critic and follower of the theories of Carl Jung, Read was a pioneer in the English-speaking world for his use of psychoanalysis as a tool for art and literary criticism. Although knighted by Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1953 for “services to literature,” Read regarded himself, politically, as an anarchist. This work, by fellow anarchist George Woodcock, is a critical study of the intellectual career of Herbert Read, as well as a thorough study of Read’s criticism, creative writing, art theory, and anarchist philosophy. Woodcock does not divide Read’s writings on politics from those on art and culture as Read saw art, culture, and politics as a single expression of human consciousness. Comprehensive and authoritative, it is an impressive volume that presents a unified portrait of one of England’s most distinguished twentieth-century critics. George Woodcock (1912–1995)—award-winning poet, author, essayist, and widely known as a literary journalist and historian—published more than ninety titles on history, biography, philosophy, poetry, and literary criticism.
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This purports to be not a biography but a serious study of Wilde's works based on the theory of his split personality --that split out of which came the wit, the paradox, the fantasy, the occasional deep tenderness of one of England's most scintillating second line writers.
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( Born in St Boniface in 1837 of French and Indian parenta...)
Born in St Boniface in 1837 of French and Indian parentage, Gabriel Dumont's childhood was spent in the Saskatchewan country, where he grew accustomed to the semi-nomadic existence of the Metis. These were the proud days of the Metis nation, when its people roamed freely throughout the Prairies. The most stable social institution was the annual buffalo hunt with its rules. When Gabriel Dumont became head of the Great Saskatchewan Hunt in 1862 the end of the nomadic lifestyle was already in sight. As the buffalo herds dwindled, the Metis began to form more permanent settlements, but were alarmed when their pleas for recognition of their land rights were ignored by Sir John A Macdonald's government. Dumont appealed to Louis Riel, leader of the Red River Rebellion. Riel spoke up for the Saskatchewan Metis, but their petitions were ignored. In 1885, the Metis took up arms against the government forces. Dumont spurred the outnumbered rebels to several victories. After the Metis defeat, Dumont fled to the United States where he spent time with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show until an amnesty was declared and he was able to return to his home.
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( To what degree can anarchism be an effective organized ...)
To what degree can anarchism be an effective organized movement? Is it realistic to think of anarchist ideas ever forming the basis for social life itself? These questions are widely being asked again today in response to the forces of economic globalization. The framework for such discussions was perhaps given its most memorable shape, however, in George Woodcock's classic study of anarchism—now widely recognized as the most significant twentieth-century overview of the subject. Woodcock surveys all of the major figures that shaped anarchist thought, from Godwin and Proudhon to Bakunin, Goldman, and Kropotkin, and looks as well at the long-term prospects for anarchism and anarchist thought. In Woodcock's view "pure" anarchism—characterized by "the loose and flexible affinity group which needs no formal organization"—was incompatible with mass movements that require stable organizations, that are forced to make compromises in the face of changing circumstances, and that need to maintain the allegiance of a wide range of supporters. Yet Woodcock continued to cherish anarchist ideals; as he said in a 1990 interview, "I think anarchism and its teachings of decentralization, of the coordination of rural and industrial societies, and of mutual aid as the foundation of any viable society, have lessons that in the present are especially applicable to industrial societies." This classic work of intellectual history and political theory (first published in the 1960s, revised in 1986) is now available exclusively from UTP Higher Education.
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( In Letter to the Past, the first part of his autobiogra...)
In Letter to the Past, the first part of his autobiography, George Woodcock dealt with his youth and adolescence in Britain through World War One and Two and through the Depression. Now this great Canadian man of letters turns his attention to his return to Canada, and deals with the period between 1949 and 1977. Beyond the Blue Mountains details Woodcock’s life in the British Columbia bush, his close and longstanding relationship with the Doukhobors, his battles with US immigration officials. We learn of the founding of the influential Canadian Literature review, and we follow Mr. Woodcock on his extended and beautifully-described tours of India and the South Seas. George Woodcock is not only a revered literary critic. He is also a gifted and witty raconteur. Beyond the Blue Mountains allows us further insights into the life of this fascinating man. Winner of the Governor General’s Award, the author now lives in Vancouver, where he founded and edited for many years Canadian Literature. He has written countless articles and books, including critical studies of novelists Hugh MacLennan and Mordecai Richler as well as biographies of George Orwell, Thomas Merton and Oscar Wilde. He is also responsible for the panoramic study of Canada entitled The Canadians. Mr. Woodcock has recently returned from a trip to China. Here is what the critics have said of Letter to the Past: “It is not so much that chronicling the lives of William Godwin, Kropotkin, and Proudhon has constituted for Woodcock a profession like that of a portraitist; more that the underlying emotional attributes of anarchism — a profound distrust of all authority mixed with a liberal dash of utopianism — have been the informing principles in his life.” — Saturday Night “The graceful prose is so rich in detail that its effect is almost that of a life invented, not remembered.” — Macleans
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( The first full-scale English-language biography of the ...)
The first full-scale English-language biography of the prominent 19th century social thinker and "father of anarchism." "Woodcock makes a very good case for the consistency of Proudhon's teaching."-- New York Times ¶"Essential reading for a true appreciation of economic history and thought."--Small Press
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( George Woodcock, author of almost 50 books, now turns t...)
George Woodcock, author of almost 50 books, now turns to his own story in Letter to the Past: An Autobiography. Although he was born in Winnipeg in 1912, Woodcock grew up in England. His memories of adolescence and young manhood take the reader through two World Wars and a Depression, before his return to Canada in 1949. Those whom he knew and who influenced him emerge in penetrating detail from Woodcock’s narrative: his father, dying of Bright’s Disease, yet with his spirit of adventure unquenched; his friend, George Orwell, “butter-fingeredly rolling cigarettes of the strongest black shag he could find and drinking tea as dark and almost as thick as treacle”; and the teeming London political and literary figures of the ‘30s and ‘4Os he knew as editor of the spritely literary journal, NOW, and as a young anarchist and writer. George Woodcock, winner of the Governor General’s Award and the Molson Prize, now lives in Vancouver, where he founded and edited for many years Canadian Literature. He has written countless articles and books, including critical studies of novelists Hugh MacLennan and Mordecai Richler and artist Ivan Eyre, as well as biographies of George Orwell, Thomas Merton, Oscar Wilde and Kropotkin, and the panoramic study of Canada entitled The Canadians. Here is what the critics have said of Letter to the Past: “It is not so much that chronicling the lives of William Godwin, Kropotkin, and Proudhon has constituted for Woodcock a profession like that of a portraitist; more that the underlying emotional attributes of anarchism a profound distrust of all authority mixed with a liberal dash of utopianism — have been the informing principles in his life.” — Saturday Night “The graceful prose is so rich in detail that its effect is almost that of a life invented, not remembered.”— Maclean’s
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Printed in an edition limited to 1000 copies. Designed and decorated by Wilfred Lang. Collection of poems, most of which originally appeared in magazines. The Canadian poet, George Woodcock 1912-1995 is also known as an editor, travel writer, historian, philosopher, biographer and humanitarian. Both covers, endpapers and title page printed with peach, gray, aqua and black. One illustration printed in gray, pale olive and black. Spine darkened. 22 pages. stiff paper wrapper. 8vo..
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The one constant factor in this long narrative, not only in terms of physical geography but also in cultural, ethnic and political ways, of the province on the Pacific, known as British Columbia, is its distinctiveness.
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Woodcock, George was born on May 8, 1912 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Son of Samuel Arthur and Margaret Gertrude (Lewis) Woodcock.
Student, Morley College, London Doctor of Laws, U. Victoria Doctor of Laws, U. Winnipeg Doctor of Letters, Sir George Williams U. Doctor of Letters, U. Ottawa Doctor of Letters, U. B.C.
Broadcaster contributing several hundred talks and scripts of plays and documentaries to Canadian Broadcasting Company programs. Editor of, Now, 1940-1947;
professional writer, 1946-1995;
first in England to 1949 and afterwards in Canada. Faculty, U. Washington, 1954-1955;
associate Professor of English, U. B.C., Vancouver, 1956-1963;
lecturer Asian studies, U. B.C., 1963-1995.
Editor Canadian Literature, 1959-1977.
(This purports to be not a biography but a serious study o...)
( To what degree can anarchism be an effective organized ...)
(The one constant factor in this long narrative, not only ...)
( Born in St Boniface in 1837 of French and Indian parenta...)
( In Letter to the Past, the first part of his autobiogra...)
( In Dawn and the Darkest Hour, poet and author George Wo...)
( The first full-scale English-language biography of the ...)
( George Woodcock, author of almost 50 books, now turns t...)
( During his lifetime, Herbert Read (1893–1968) acquired ...)
(Printed in an edition limited to 1000 copies. Designed an...)
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Married Ingeborg HedwigElisabeth Linzer, February 10, 1949.