Background
Raymond Knister was born on May 27, 1899, in Lakeshore, Ontario, Canada.
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Victoria University where Raymond Knister studied.
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White Narcissus was a groundbreaking work in the development of the Canadian realist novel, fusing Knister’s imagistic sensibility with the deeply felt experience of a real time and place. Knister died tragically at the age of thirty-three, before his contribution was recognized in his own country and before the full potential of his remarkable talent could be realized.
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1929
Raymond Knister was born on May 27, 1899, in Lakeshore, Ontario, Canada.
Raymond Knister attended Victoria University. However, he had to drop out after catching pneumonia.
At the age of eighteen, Raymond Knister started to write articles at the college literary magazine, Acta Victoriana. He worked as a reviewer at Border Cities Star from 1922 to 1923. At the same time, he worked at his father's farm. In 1923 he took up a post of an editor at Midland magazine. By 1924 Knister was a taxi driver in Chicago and in 1925 he moved to Canada and worked as a contributor at Star Weekly. In 1931, he moved his family to Montreal where he was able to enjoy a wide circle of literary acquaintances. He started to work at Ryerson Press as a staff member.
Raymond Knister began writing and publishing stories and poems about Canadian farm life in 1919. He wanted to publish his own volume of poetry in 1926. Titled Windfalls for Cider, the publication was put off due to financial setbacks. The volume was not published until 1949, seventeen years following Knister’s death. After 1925 Knister devoted less time to poetry and more to fiction. He published his first book, White Narcissus, in 1929. He also published My Star Predominant in 1934. Knister also wrote roughly one hundred poems, and dozens of critical works, including essays and book reviews. He also was a contributor to periodicals, including Canadian Bookman, Canadian Magazine, and Dalhousie Review. His writing career was cut short when he drowned on 29 August 1932, while on holiday with his wife at Lake St Clair in Ontario.
(White Narcissus was a groundbreaking work in the developm...)
1929(The Poems of Raymond Knister)
1983(Stories and Other Prose)
1976Raymond Knister was a great supporter of developing Canadian literature. Like other writers of this time, such as Morley Callaghan and A. J. M. Smith, Knister insisted upon the development of unique national literature that would remain connected with international literary movements, like modernism, but would be neither an imitation of other literature or produced for the ephemeral tastes of the market.
Raymond Knister married Myrtle Gamble in 1927. The marriage produced a daughter.