![]() ![]() Which his father had long cultivated as a hobby. Nova Scotia on 20 March 1907, he was expected to become a professional in the field of Classics Previously, both his education and his experience hadĬonspired to set him along a quite different track.īorn the only son of an austere Scots Presbyterian doctor and a musical, artistic mother in Glace Bay, Ironically, MacLennan's espousal of fictional nationalism began as an "experiment" in his first ![]() Have enjoyed inside and outside Canada, the large number of languages into which his books haveīeen translated, and the direct and indirect tribute paid him by the many Canadian authors who haveĮither acknowledged or displayed his influence. ![]() The achievement of this aim can be measured by the wide sales his seven novels MacLennan's ideal reader, for by that time MacLennan's primary aim - as expressed in many an essayĪnd speech - was to set the local stage on which the nation's dramas might be enacted before an international audience. Has achieved a self-confident detachment in regard to the rest of the world." Wilson proved himself Things which had little in common with either the "American" or the British colonial one and which Surprisingly and agreeably different from anything else.in English., a Canadian way of looking at When Edmund Wilson first looked into MacLennan's essays in 1960, he encountered "a point of view ![]()
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