William Herbert New, OC

Order of Canada

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, FRSC

Royal Society of Canada

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 (March 28, 1938) is a Canadian

Canada

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 poet

Poet

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 and literary critic. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia

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, he was educated at the University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

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 and the University of Leeds

University of Leeds

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. He taught English literature at the former from 1965 to 2003. In 2007 he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada

Order of Canada

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.

For 29 years he held editorial positions at Canadian Literature

Canadian Literature (journal)

Canadian Literature is a quarterly of criticism and review published out of the University of British Columbia.Canadian Literature was founded in 1959 by George Woodcock, who produced 73 issues before retiring in 1977. After Woodcock's retirement, the University of British Columbia invited William...

and, in 2004, was made Editor Emeritus.

Criticism

• Introduction to The Stone Angel
  The Stone Angel
  The Stone Angel, first published in 1964 by McClelland and Stewart, is perhaps the best-known of Margaret Laurence's series of novels set in the fictitious town of Manawaka, Manitoba. In parallel narratives set in the past and the present-day , The Stone Angel tells the story of Hagar Currie Shipley...
  
  — 1967
• Malcolm Lowry — 1971
• Articulating West — 1972
• Among Worlds: An Introduction to Modern Commonwealth and South African Fiction — 1975
• Malcolm Lowry: A Reference Guide — 1978
• Dreams of Speech and Violence: The Art of the Short Story in Canada and New Zealand — 1987
• A History of Canadian Literature — 1989
• Land Sliding: Imagining Space, Presence & Power in Canadian Writing — 1997
• Reading Mansfield and Metaphors of Form — 1999
• Grandchild of Empire: About Irony, Mainly in the Commonwealth — 2003

Poetry

• Science Lessons — 1996
• Raucous — 1999
• Riverbook and Ocean — 2002
• Night Room — 2003
• Underwood Log — 2004
• Touching Ecuador — 2006
• Along a Snake Fence Riding — 2007
• The Rope-maker's Tale — 2009

Children's books

• Vanilla Gorilla — 1998
• Llamas in the Laundry — 2002
• Dream Helmet — 2005
• The Year I Was Grounded — 2008

Anthologies edited

• Four Hemispheres — 1971
• Voice and Vision — 1972 (with Jack Hodgins
  Jack Hodgins
  For the fictional character from Bones see Jack Hodgins Jack Hodgins is a Canadian novelist and short story writer....
  
  )
• Dramatists in Canada — 1972
• Critical Writings on Commonwealth Literatures: A Bibliography — 1975
• Modern Stories in English — 1975 (with H.J. Rosengarten)
• Modern Canadian Essays — 1976
• Margaret Laurence: The Writer and Her Critics — 1977
• A Political Art: Essays and Images in Honour of George Woodcock — 1978
• Active Voice — 1980 (with W.E. Messenger)
• The Active Stylist — 1981 (with W.E. Messenger)
• A 20th Century Anthology — 1984
• Canadian Short Fiction — 1986
• Canadian Writers Since 1960 — 1986
• Canadian Writers Since 1960, 2nd series — 1987
• Canadian Writers 1920-1959 — 1988
• Canadian Writers 1920-1959, 2nd series — 1989
• Native Writers and Canadian Writing — 1990
• Canadian Writers Before 1890 — 1990
• Canadian Writers 1890-1920 — 1990
• Inside the Poem — 1992
• Literature in English — 1993 (with W.E. Messenger)
• Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada — 2002
• Tropes and Territories: Short Fiction, Postcolonial Readings, Canadian Writings in Context (— 2007 (with Marta Dvorak)
• From a Speaking Place: Writings from the First Fifty Years of Canadian Literature — 2009 (with Réjean Beaudoin, Susan Fisher, Iain Higgins, Eva-Marie Kröller and Laurie Ricou)