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- 1930-1992 (Creation)
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26 boxes (5 metres)
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Gerald Owen was born in Toronto in 1953. He attended the University of Toronto to obtain a law degree, and practiced law for five years. He has since worked as an editor for The Idler and Books in Canada magazines, and as an editor and columnist for The National Post and The Globe and Mail.
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Eric Trevor Owen, father of Gerald Owen, was a professor of Greek at University College and at Trinity College at the University of Toronto. Owen has published a number of works on Classical Greek literature, which include: On Aristotle's Explanation of Aesthetic Pleasure (1932), Tragedy and the First Tragedian (1934), Sophocles the Dramatist (1936), Drama in Sophocles's Oedipus Tyrannus (1940), The Story of the Iliad (1947), The Illusion of Thought (1948), and The Harmony of Aeschylus, which was assembled from Owen’s notes after his death and edited by his other son, Ivan Owen, and published in 1952.
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This collection contains all correspondence that was conducted by co-editors at The Idler Magazine, Gerald Owen and Paul Wilson, with their various contributors. It includes letters, drafts of articles, editorial corrections and changes, pitches and research for articles, solicited and unsolicited submissions, grant applications, photographs, employee performance evaluations, book reviews, writers' resumes and writing samples, newspaper/magazine clippings and subscription enquiries. The Idler Magazine was in operation from 1985 to 1993.
This collection also includes holograph and typescript work by ET Owen, including: teaching and lecture notes, Greek and Latin language exams, poetry, short stories, and general academic research notes on a variety of Classical topics. It also includes notes and multiple drafts, with both holograph and editorial revisions, of a number of Owen’s published works, with a significant amount of material relating to his publications on Homer, Sophocles and Aeschylus.
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Material may be requested in person at the Fisher Library Reference Desk, or in advance using our online stack retrieval request form: https://aeon.library.utoronto.ca. Please note that this material requires 2 business days to retrieve.
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- English
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- Owen, Eric Trevor (Subject)