BRIAN TREHEARNE is a Professor of Canadian literature at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ. He is the author of Aestheticism and the Canadian Modernists: Aspects of a Poetic Influence (1989) and The Montreal Forties: Modernist Poetry in Transition (1999). He has edited Irving Layton’s Fornalutx: Selected Poems, 1928-1990 (1992),ÌýThe Complete Poems of A.J.M. Smith (2007),ÌýThe Complete Poems of John Glassco (2018), and the anthology Canadian Poetry 1920 to 1960 (2010). He is currently writing on the poetry, songs, and fiction of Leonard Cohen, whose works he has taught at McGill for over twenty years.