CEO of academic publishing house Broadview Press and the author of several novels. LePan's 1989 book of memoirs Bright Glass of Memory recounts his involvement with several leading lights of the twentieth century, including John Maynard Keynes and T.S. Eliot. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1998; among his other awards were a Guggenheim Fellowship (1948), the Royal Society of Canada's Lorne Pierce Medal (1976), and several honorary degrees. He remains well known for his war poetry (long poems from the post-war period such as "Tuscan Villa" and "Elegy for the Romagna," as well as shorter, punchier 1980s poems such as "Below Monte Cassino" in which he recalled the events of a generation earlier); for his poems relating to the landscape of Georgian Bay in Ontario; for his love poems; and for lyric poems in which the poet's passion for the natural world is infused with the suggestion of homoerotic passion ("Coureurs de Bois," "A Country Without a Mythology"). His work has been included in many anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Canadian Literature in English: Texts and Contexts, The Harbrace Anthology of Poetry, The Broadview Anthology of Poetry, and Modern Canadian Poets. Selected works The Wounded Prince (1948) The Net and the Sword (1953) The Deserter (1964) Bright Glass of Memory (1979) Something Still To Find (1982) Weathering It: Complete Poems 1948-1987 (1987) Far Voyages (1990) Macalister, or Dying in the Dark (1995) References John Barton and Billeh Nickerson, eds. Seminal: The Anthology of Canada's Gay Male Poets. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2007. . Eugene Benson and William Toye, eds. The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997. . Evan Jones and Todd Swift, eds. Modern Canadian Poets: An Anthology of Poems in English. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2010. . J. M. Kertzer. "The Wounded Eye: The Poetry of Douglas LePan," Studies in Canadian Literature 6.1, 1981. James H. Marsh, ed., The Canadian Encyclopedia. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1999. . Peter Stoicheff. "Douglas LePan," in Jeffrey M. Heath, ed., Profiles in Canadian Literature'' VI. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1986, pp. 9–16. Note: Inquiries regarding copyright permission for Douglas LePan's work should be directed to his literary executor: Don LePan, 408 Milton Street, Nanaimo, BC, Canada V9R 2L1. External links Douglas Valentine LePan oral history interview held at the University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services 1914 births 1998 deaths 20th-century Canadian