EARLY PUBLICATIONS
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- Various poems have appeared in EDGE, MANUSCRIPTS, NEW STUDENT REVIEW, THE DALHOUSIE REVIEW.
- * “Danae” (short story), THE CANADIAN FORUM, XLV, No 536 (September 1965).
- * “The Journals of Sixten the Painter” (chapter of unpublished novel), NEW STUDENT REVIEW, 14 (fall 1965).
- “SELECTED LETTERS of Malcolm Lowry,” THE DALHOUSIE REVIEW, 46, No. I (Spring 1966).
- “Portrait of the Artist as Artist” (on Lowry), SHENANDOAH, XVII, No. 3 (Spring 1966).
- * “The Poet’s Intuition of Prose Fiction: Pound and Eliot on the Novel,” UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR REVIEW, II, No. 1.
- * “Night Wait” (chapter of unpublished novel), UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON FORUM, IV, No. 12 (Winter‑Spring 1967).
- “Chaucer’s Failure with Women: The Inadequacy of Criseyde,” WESTERN HUMANITIES REVIEW, XXIII, No. 2 (Spring 1969).
- “Malcolm Lowry’s DARK AS THE GRAVE WHEREIN MY FRIEND IS LAID,” THE DALHOUSIE REVIEW, Vol. 48, No. 3 (Autumn 1968).
- * “Masks and the Man: The Writer as Actor” (on Lowry), SHENANDOAH, XIX, No. 4 (Summer 1968).
- * Letters from Mrs. Malcolm Lowry.
- “Metaphor in William Blake: A Negative View,” JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM, XXVIII, No. 2 (Winter 1969).
- * “Malcolm Lowry, New York Publishing, and the New Illiteracy,” ENCOUNTER (London), XXXV, No. 1 (July 1970).
- * Commentary on this article in October, November, and December ENCOUNTER. Written up in LONDON OBSERVER, August 30, 1970.
- * “The Student Union” (short story), chosen by editor Joyce Carol Oates for UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR REVIEW, V, No. 2 (Spring 1970), Listed among “Distinctive Short Stories, 1970,” in BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, 1971, ed. Martha Foley and David Burnett (New York, 1971).
- * “Malcolm Lowry’s OCTOBER FERRY TO GABRIOLA,” THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (October 25, 1970).
- * “Lowry’s Last Novel,” CANADIAN LITERATURE, No. 48 (Spring 1971)
Reprinted as “The Writer as Consciousness” in MALCOLM LOWRY: THE MAN AND HIS WORK, ed. George Woodcock (University of British Columbia Press, 1971). - “A Phenomenological Glance at a Few Lines of Roethke,” MODERN POETRY STUDIES, Vol. II, no. 4 (1971).
- * “Tiros, A Moral Tale” (short story set in Vietnam), NEW REVIEW (Spring 1971)
- * “Archaeologist of Morning,” THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (July 18, 1971).
- * “Charles Olson: Materials for a Nexus,” OPEN LETTER (Toronto), Second Series, No. 2 (Summer 1971).
- Editor, CHARLES OLSON: ESSAYS, REMINISCENCES, REVIEWS, BOUNDARY 2, Vol. II, Nos. 1 and 2 (International journal published by State University of New York at Binghamton, now published by Duke University). (Fall 1973, Winter 1974). 388 pages.
- “Charles Olson: Materials for a Nexus,” CHARLES OLSON: ESSAYS, REMINISCENCES, REVIEWS, BOUNDARY 2, Vol. II, Nos. 1 and 2 (Fall 1973, Winter 1974).
- “The Art of Aubrey Schwartz,” BOUNDARY 2, Vol. II, No. 3 (Spring 1974),
- * “Malcolm Lowry: The Phenomenology of Failure,” BOUNDARY 2, Vol. III. No. 2 (Winter 1975). Click here to download. This article has been praised and quoted in several dozen articles on Lowry.
- [“Matthew Corrigan’s essay, ‘Malcolm Lowry: The Phenomenology of Failure’ is still one of the most perceptive works on Lowry to be found. Corrigan’s insights are as valid today as they were in 1975.” Professor Greg Bond (Technische Fachhochschule Wildau, Wildau Germany) in “Lowry: a critical reassessment of DARK AS THE GRAVE,” THE MALCOLM LOWRY REVIEW, No. 40, Spring 1997. Published by Wilfred Laurier University].
- * “Bomb Scare,” NEW REVIEW (Spring 1976).
- “Masks and the Man: The Writer as Actor,” (above), reprinted in MALCOLM LOWRY: THE WRITER AND HIS CRITICS, ed. Barry Wood (Ottawa 1980. Part of CRITICAL VIEWS ON CANADIAN WRITERS.
- “The Writer as Consciousness” (above) reprinted in TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERARY CRITICISM (Gale Research Co., Detroit), 1981-82.
- “Aubrey Schwartz: An Appreciation,” in AUBREY SCHWARTZ, A RETROSPECTIVE OF HIS WORK. Art Museum, State University of New York at Binghamton, September-October 1997.
- “Lowry Agonistes,” UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO QUARTERLY (Winter 2001-2002).