Six Montreal Poets
Various Artists

Six Montreal Poets is a collection of mid-20th-century poetry featuring six members of the Montreal Group, modernist writers formed at McGill University in the 1920s. This 1957 album offers listeners a slice of the romance and bustle of mid-century Montreal. Rejecting the Victorianism that had previously characterized English Canadian poetry, the Montreal Group took on more cosmopolitan, personal, and philosophical subjects. It was a movement that eventually produced Leonard Cohen, heard here reciting his own poetry from his first published book, Let Us Compare Mythologies , seven years before his first major literary prize and ten years before his first song album would be released.
Track Listing
101
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Like an Old Proud King in a Parable | A.J.M. Smith | 1:09 | |
102
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A Hyacinth for Edith | A.J.M. Smith | 1:29 | |
103
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Noctambule | A.J.M. Smith | 1:04 | |
104
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The Plot Against Proteus | A.J.M. Smith | 0:52 | |
105
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Business as Usual/Fear as Normal | A.J.M. Smith | 1:41 | |
106
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The Archer | A.J.M. Smith | 1:01 | |
107
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Sonnet | A.J.M. Smith | 0:58 | |
108
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My Death | A.J.M. Smith | 1:05 | |
109
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For Wilf and His House | Leonard Cohen | 1:50 | |
110
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Beside the Shepherd | Leonard Cohen | 0:53 | |
111
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Poem | Leonard Cohen | 0:30 | |
112
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Lovers | Leonard Cohen | 0:50 | |
113
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The Sparrows | Leonard Cohen | 1:36 | |
114
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Warning | Leonard Cohen | 0:58 | |
115
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Les Vieus | Leonard Cohen | 0:50 | |
116
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Elegy | Leonard Cohen | 0:45 | |
117
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The Birth of Tragedy | Irving Layton | 1:40 | |
118
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The Fertile Muck | Irving Layton | 1:42 | |
119
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Maxie | Irving Layton | 1:30 | |
120
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The Bull Calf | Irving Layton | 1:59 | |
121
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The Cold Green Element | Irving Layton | 1:50 | |
122
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The Improved Binoculars | Irving Layton | 1:10 | |
123
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Surfaces | F.R. Scott | 0:45 | |
124
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Lakeshore | F.R. Scott | 2:31 | |
125
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Laurentian Shield | F.R. Scott | 1:44 | |
126
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The Bird | F.R. Scott | 0:39 | |
127
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Caring | F.R. Scott | 0:42 | |
128
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Bonne Entente | F.R. Scott | 0:34 | |
129
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Memory | F.R. Scott | 0:50 | |
130
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Will to Win | F.R. Scott | 1:01 | |
131
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Conflict | F.R. Scott | 1:13 | |
132
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Poem 19 from Europe | Louis Dudek | 1:05 | |
133
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Poem 95 from Europe | Louis Dudek | 0:55 | |
134
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To an Unknown in a Restaurant | Louis Dudek | 0:58 | |
135
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A Cracker Jack | Louis Dudek | 1:08 | |
136
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The Pomegranate | Louis Dudek | 2:28 | |
137
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Line and Form | Louis Dudek | 1:54 | |
138
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Psalm XXII | A.M. Klein | 1:05 | |
139
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Plumaged Proxy | A.M. Klein | 1:24 | |
140
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The Rocking Chair | A.M. Klein | 1:51 | |
141
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Political Meeting | A.M. Klein | 2:23 | |
142
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For the Sisters of the Hotel Dieu | A.M. Klein | 0:41 | |
143
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Montreal | A.M. Klein | 3:27 |