6. Mr. Cohen could be considered to be a late starter in music with his first album being released when he was 32 years old. What was Mr. Cohen's career prior to the recording of this inaugural album?
From Quiz A Tribute to Mr. Leonard Cohen
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Poet
Mr. Cohen enrolled at McGill University in 1951 and graduated four years later with a B.A. in literature. He published his first poems whilst at university and his first book of poems, "Let Us Compare Mythologies" was published the year after he finished his undergraduate degree. He attempted post-graduate degrees at McGill and Columbia University but finished neither, by then concentrating on writing poetry with an income from odd jobs. His second book of poems, "The Spice-Box of Earth" was published in 1961. He was heavily influenced by the works of William Butler Yeats, Walt Whitman, Federico García Lorca, and Henry Miller. Because of a trust income from his father's estate he was able to live without regular employment though he chose to live a frugal existance. In the sixties he bought a modest house on the island of Hydra in Greece where he wrote the acclaimed, "Flowers for Hitler" (1964), and two novels "The Favourite Game" (1963) and "Beautiful Losers" (1966) and another volume of poems "Parasites of Heaven" (1966). While his works were acclaimed by critics, they were not a very commercial success.
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