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Patrick John MacAllister Anderson (4 August 1915 in Ashtead – 17 March 1979 in Halstead) was an English-born Canadian poet.〔(Patrick Anderson's ) entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia.〕 He was educated at Oxford and Columbia. He taught in Montreal, both at private schools and at McGill University, between 1940 and 1950.〔 In March 1942 Anderson and Montreal Group poet F.R. Scott founded Montreal literary magazine ''Preview''; A.M. Klein and P.K. Page also became part of the editorial group. According to The Canadian Encyclopedia, "''Preview's'' orientation was cosmopolitan; its members looked largely towards the English poets of the 1930s for inspiration."〔George Woodcock, "(Northern Review )," ''Canadian Encyclopedia'' (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988), 1515.〕 In 1943, critic John Sutherland published a review of Anderson's poetry in rival magazine ''First Statement'' which suggested homoerotic themes in his writing, and accusing Anderson of "some sexual experience of a kind not normal";〔John Sutherland, "The Writing of Patrick Anderson". ''First Statement'', 1.19 (1943): 3– 6〕 although Anderson would in fact come out as gay later in life, he was married at the time to Peggy Doernbach, and threatened to sue.〔John Barton and Billeh Nickerson, eds. ''Seminal: The Anthology of Canada's Gay Male Poets''. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2007. ISBN 1551522179.〕 Sutherland printed a retraction in the following issue.〔John Sutherland, “Retraction”. ''First Statement'', 1.20 (1943): cover.〕 The incident was little known outside of Montreal at the time, as both magazines had small, primarily local circulations, although it would come to be more extensively analyzed in the 1990s as an important incident in the history of LGBT literature in Canada.〔 Anderson and Doernbach were members of the Labor-Progressive Party,〔 and were active supporters of Labour-Progressive MP Fred Rose. ''Preview'' merged with ''First Statement'' in 1945 to become ''Northern Review''.〔William H. New, ''Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada'' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002), p. 729 (entry "(McGill Movement )"). ISBN 0802007619.〕 Following his divorce from Doernbach in 1950, Anderson left Canada, teaching for two years in Malaysia before returning to England. He subsequently entered into a same-sex relationship with Alistair Sutherland, with whom he co-edited ''Eros: An Anthology of Male Friendship'' in 1961;〔William H. New, ''Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada''. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. p. 21 (entry "Patrick Anderson"). ISBN 0802007619.〕 in this era, he also published memoirs and travel writing.〔 Despite this, he continued to treat his sexuality as a private matter, declining inclusion in an anthology of gay male literature in 1972.〔Brian Trehearne, ''The Montreal Forties: Modernist Poetry in Transition''. University of Toronto Press, 1999. ISBN 9780802044525.〕 He remained a resident of England for the rest of his life, although he sometimes returned to Canada in the 1970s as a guest lecturer;〔 his final volume of poetry, published in 1977, was titled ''Return to Canada''. ==Selected bibliography== *1945: ''A Tent for April'' *1946: ''The White Centre'' *1953: ''The Colour as Naked'' *1955: ''Snake Wine: A Singapore Episode'' *1957: ''Search Me'' *1961: ''Eros: An Anthology of Male Friendship'' *1969: ''Over the Alps: Reflections on Travel and Travel Writing'' *1976: ''A Visiting Distance - Poems: New, Revised, And Selected'' *1977: ''Return to Canada'' 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「Patrick Anderson (poet)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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