Leo Kennedy | |
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Born | John Leo Kennedy August 22, 1907 Liverpool, England |
Died | 2000 Pasadena, California, U.S. |
Pen name | Arthur Beaton, Leonard Bullen, William Crowl, Helen Laurence, Edgar Main, Peter Quinn |
Language | English |
Citizenship | British subject |
Genre | poetry, social criticism |
Notable works | The Shrouding |
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John Leo Kennedy (August 22, 1907 – 2000) was a Canadian poet and critic, who in the 1920s and 1930s was a member of the Montreal Group of modernist poets. The Canadian Encyclopedia says of him that "Kennedy helped change the direction of Canadian poetry in the 1920s."[1]