A Professor Poet

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(Macmillan, 1948 scarce dj)

L(ouis) A(lexander) MacKay (1901-1982) was born in Western Ontario, educated in Toronto, and became a Rhodes Scholar, at Oxford. He taught Classics at UBC and Latin at the U of California. A witty satirical poet, MacKay is best known for his oft-anthologized poem “The Ill-Tempered Lover” which I myself selected for the first ed. of Connections 3: Discovering (Gage)

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