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In 1940 her family emigrated from London, England to Newfoundland . In 1957 she won the Governor General's Award for ''The Boatman'', which remains her best known collection of poetry. She taught English at the University Of Toronto from 1957 to 1996.


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  • ''Nineteen poems'' ( 1952 )

  • ''O Earth Return'' ( 1954 )

  • ''The Boatman'' ( 1957 )

  • ''The Four Ages of Man'' (Greek myths retold in prose)

  • ''Welcoming disaster: poems, 1970-74'' ( 1975 )