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Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey, (March 18, 1905 – April 21, 1997) was a Canadian educator, poet, anthropologist, ethno-historian, and academic administrator. ==Life== Born in Quebec City, Quebec, the son of Professor Loring Woart Bailey Jr. and Ernestine Valiant (Gale) Bailey, he received his BA degree in 1927 from the University of New Brunswick (UNB).〔 He was editor of ''The High School of Quebec Magazine'' while in high school, and verse editor of ''The Brunswickian'' at UNB, and contributed poetry to both magazines. Bailey then attended the University of Toronto, where he earned his MA in 1929.〔 There he became friends with Earle Birney, Ray Daniells, and Robert Finch, and was introduced to the poetry of T.S. Eliot.〔 After graduating, Bailey worked as a reporter for the ''Toronto Mail and Empire''.〔 He returned to the University of Toronto to receive his Ph.D in 1934.〔 He then spent a year on a Royal Society of Canada fellowship studying at the London School of Economics, where he was introduced to "leftist politics" and the poetry of Dylan Thomas.〔 From 1935 to 1938, he worked as assistant director and associate curator at the New Brunswick Museum in Saint John, New Brunswick.〔 In 1938, the president of UNB offered to make Bailey the head of a new Department of History if he could talk the provincial government into granting sufficient funding for it. Bailey was successful, and served as head of the new department for 30 years, until 1969.〔 Bailey instituted colonial American studies at the UNB; as a result a closer liaison developed between its history departments and that of the University of Maine in the 1960s. Visits between scholars from Atlantic Provinces and the University of Maine became frequent after the establishment of the New England - Atlantic Provinces Study Center at Orono in 1966. Bailey worked hard at founding a literary community in New Brunswick, founding the Bliss Carman Society. The Society held its meetings at his home, and he kept minutes (including records of all poems). His mimeographed sheets of poems read at Society meetings eventually grew into a new literary magazine, ''The Fiddlehead'',〔 established in 1945 and now Canada's longest-running literary journal.〔(The Fiddlehead ), Fiddlehead.ca, Web, May 5, 2011.〕 Alfred Bailey was Honorary Librarian and CEO of the UNB Library from 1946 to 1959. From 1946 to 1964, he was the first Dean of Arts at UNB, and from 1965 to 1969, he was Vice President (Academic). He retired in 1970.〔 He wrote poetry from college through retirement. His books of poetry include ''Songs of the Saguenay'' (1927), ''Tao'' (1930), ''Border River'' (1952), ''Thanks for a Drowned Island'' (1973), and ''Miramichi Lightning: The Collected Poems of Alfred G. Bailey'' (1981).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alfred Bailey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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