Ronald Bates
Introduction
Fonds:
#01
Title:
Ronald Bates fonds
Dates of Material:
[ca. 1959]–1968
Extent:
12 cm of textual records
Biographical sketch
Ronald Gordon Nudell Bates, a poet, literary critic and Professor of English was born in Regina Saskatchewan in 1924. He earned a B.A. (1948), at Victoria College, University of Toronto, and M.A. and Ph.D also from the University of Toronto. The subject of his doctoral thesis was James Joyce’s Finnegan’s wake. His teaching career was spent at the University of Upsala (Sweden), the University of Toronto and University of Western Ontario. A member of P.E.N., selected publications of his poetry include The wandering world (1959), The unimaginable circus; theatre and zoo (privately printed, 1965), and Changes (1968), and his poems have appeared in various periodicals. He is also the co-editor of works of criticism on Erik Lindegren and James Joyce, and the author of critical articles published in journals and a biography of Northrop Frye (1971). Married to Kirsti Helen Mottonen; his three children are Karina Anne, Peter Gerald and Lisa Lydia.
Scope and content
The fonds consists of typescripts of the poetry collections “The Wandering World,” [ca. 1959] and “Changes,” 1968
Note(s)
Source of supplied title
Title based on contents of the fonds
Immediate source of acquisition
Acquired ca. 1978 from Ronald Bates
Finding aids
Box/file list available
Accruals
No further accruals are expected
Access points
Provenance access points:
Bates, Ronald Gordon Nudell, 1924–