Alfred DesRochers is one of the most important Quebec writers of the period between the two world wars. Today he is better known as a poet than as a journalist or literary critic, although his poetic activity extended over more than forty years, from 1922 to 1967, and includes some eight thousand verses which appeared either in the collections published during his lifetime or in newspapers and magazines of the 1930s and 1940s. His critical works comprise the first-rate volume of "interviews littéraires," Paragraphes, published in 1931, along with numerous essays, articles of criticism, and reviews which have not been collected in book form. To this must be added lectures, forewords, and prefaces to a number of books, plus a voluminous correspondence with several writers of the 1930s and 1940s--Robert Choquette, Émile Coderre, Louis Dantin, Claude-Henri Grignon, Germaine Guèvremont, Rina Lasnier, and Clément Marchand...