[His] poems are astonishing. These are poems that rival anything anyone in the world has ever written. |
He is badly neglected. How could we let this happen. |
He was as famous as Canadian writer could get at the time. |
The poetry was the man, the man was the poetry. |
You always got the sense that Irving was performing himself. He had a very strong sense of himself and how he wanted to appear and what he wanted to show people. |