Home >> Arts >> Literature >> World Literature >> Canadian >> Poetry >> Poets >> Smith, A.J.M. Arthur James Marshall Smith (November 8, 1902-November 21, 1980) was a Canadian poet. Natural within Montreal he became a student at McGill University. Spell a student there inside 1925 he founded the McGill Fortnightly Review alongside F.R. Scott. A Read was one of a foremost American periodicals to publish modern poetry. Smith received his doctor's degree from either a University of Edinburgh in 1931. Inside 1936 he became the prof at Michigan State University and taught there until his retirement in 1972. He was swell known each as a scholar in & creator of poetry, by having several of his better known works focusing in American themes. He won a 1943 Governor General's Awards for poetry and in 1961 was awarded the Lorne Pierce Medal. 100 Canadian Poets: A.J.M. Smith Biography, publications, and critical materials.
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