1912
George Woodcock, Canadian author and poet (died 1995)
George Woodcock, Canadian author and poet (died 1995)
George Woodcock, Canadian author and poet (died 1995)
George Woodcock
Canadian writer, literary critic, philosopher, poet and theorist (1912–1995)
- Born
- 1912
George Woodcock was a Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anarchist thinker, a philosopher, an essayist and literary critic. He was also a poet and published several volumes of travel writing. In 1959 he was the founding editor of the journal Canadian Literature which was the first academic journal specifically dedicated to Canadian writing. He is most commonly known outside Canada for his book Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements (1962).