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Purdy, Alfred Wellington (782 words) |
 | Al Purdy was one of a group of important Canadian poets - Milton ACORN, Alden NOWLAN and Patrick LANE are others - who had little formal education and whose roots were in Canada's working-class culture. |
| Important factors in Purdy's poetic liberation from his early dependence on moribund romantic models were the humour and the anger he began to introduce, a characteristic style and form with relaxed, loping lines and a gruff, garrulous and engaging poetic persona. |
| Purdy was at the heart of the 1960s movements that set Canadian poets wandering the country, reading their poems to large audiences. |
| 100 Canadian Poets - Al Purdy - Profile (305 words) |
| Al Purdy was born in Wooler, Ontario in 1918. |
| Purdy won the Governor General's Literary Award in the poetry category in 1965 with The Cariboo Horses and again in 1986 with Collected Poems, 1956-1986. |
| "The Correspondence of Margaret Laurence and Al Purdy." Recherches Anglaises et Nord-Americaines 24 (1991): 91-101. |
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