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From e poem entitla{”op§fn: l%§?” theee linee by 3.3. Scott ere indicative , 1195473 c" 'v'v~A<?‘ e:...'3v~\ - of that eort of pain: ‘ s

In the spring of ideas they vyere, the rare spring That breaks historic winters. Street and field Stirring with hope and green with new ‘?“d"a"°“" The cracking husks copious with sprouting seed. Here was destruction before flowering».

Here freedom was cut in its first tendrlls.

Even more eoignent and lyrical, I feels’

evxxs ere the dozen

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or eo noome of revolutionary etruggle written Egr§i0 mennedy. One Of the

contributing editore to the megaeine founded in l§5h, NEW Frontier. More

A thelmreny other Cenedian periodicel of the time; ite pagee were devoted to dooumentery reportage from Epein, to political erticlee, to literery critie cidm ggg perticu¥@rly to the new poetry inepired by the Spanish ntruggle and by poems from Spain itself, treneldted beautifully by 3? critic h.E. Collin. Inxkhnxnidxthixtieexfiennedxxhedxnnhiiehedxennxheekxxthexxhxending uniehxkaxxannxxnpndixkudxx mew Frontier's eim wee ” to acquaint the Canadian fiublic with the work of thoee writere who are expreeeing e positive reaction to the eociel ecene; and to eerve ee an open forum for ell ehedee of nro~ greeeive opinion.” and as euch it attracted the young Kennedy who had pub~ liehed, in thexn%32;innxthixtian one book of poems, The Shrouding. At the time of the npanieh crieie he had repudiated this poetry ee decedent, filled with imegee of the Wasteland, ”eeethetic pole~eitting”. Kennedy,

in the pegee of flew firontier eought to eeteblieh a new xxekhexie “Direction for Canadian Poets”, eetting up criticel etenderde which he wee the first to follow. At thie point 1 would like to quote from d very velueble 1RD theeie written by Richard F. Horneey for the Univereity of dlberte, l§75. Ite title is: “The Function of Poetry end the Sole of the Poet in Canadian

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Literary negazinee rrom New Brontier Through uelfex” engffieudgvotee e greet

deel of attention to Leo Iennedy. Of his eight poeme puhliehed in New Frontier

(eome of them under peeudonyme) the critic eeye:

They divide rether neatly into three types. Three of them~~ “Calling Eagles”, “Advice to e ioung Poet” and “anemone for fhie generation” , are ecetic rephreeinge or the cell for more vigoroue eociel engagement on the pert of the poet which he voiced in"*Direction for Ceaedien Poete.” A second droup consisting of “New Comrade; “You, Spanieh Comrade", “Revolutionary Greeting” and ”Memoriel to the Defénd re“ ere enemhlee of the ”outw£é@"10OKiflE P0etTY he h°Ped f°r""