Louis Dantin

Louis Dantin (1865 - 1945), pseudonym of Eugene Seers was a novelist and a literary critic inhabitant of Quebec.

After studies with the College of Montreal, it receives its sacerdotal ordination in 1883.

Member of the literary School of Montreal, it published works of Emile Nelligan. Dantin also re-examined, corrected and ordered the poems and the worms of Nelligan, of which he wrote the foreword in first edition.

In 1904, it returns its cassock and moves with Boston to earn its living in the Typographie. It puts at the world a child with a black woman.

Of 1920 with 1942, it publishes its critical tests . At that time, it is the second literary criticism most influential after Camille Roy. Dantin makes discover poets like Alfred Desrochers and Paul Morin. He prefers the government progressist of Theodore Roosevelt at the conservative government of Maurice Duplessis.

He will remain in exile in the United States until his death in 1945. Its posthumous works were published in 1951, 1963 and 2002

Yvette Francoli published the criticism of its work in 2002.

Works published

Emile Nelligan and its work , 1903-1904
Poets of French America , 1928
the Life dreams of it , 1930
Javanese Chanson , 1930
the literary Movement in the Cantons of the East , 1930
Gloses critics , 1931
the Box of Crusoé , 1932
intellectual Chanson , 1932
the literary School of Montreal: his origins, his organizers, his influences
Tales of Christmas , 1936
the Guest , C. 1936
I remember , 1937
Childhoods of Fanny , 1951
Poèmes of in addition to-fall , 1962
a found Manuscript with Kor-El-Fantin , 1963
the Feelings of an affectionate father , 1963
the sad history of Li-Hung Fong and other poems , 2003

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