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Harsh and Lovely Land: The Major Canadian Poets and the Making of a Canadian Tradition

Harsh and Lovely Land: The Major Canadian Poets and the Making of a Canadian Tradition


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Poet-critic Tom Marshall examines four stages in the development of apurely Canadian tradition in poetry through a focus on the work ofmajor poets writing in English from the mid-nineteenth century to thepresent.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Half-Breeds: The Pioneers Dear Bad Poets: Tentative Approaches to the Canadian Space Mountaineers and Swimmers: Roberts and Carman Revisited Archibald Lampman: More Facts and Dreams Half-Breeds: Duncan Campbell Scott Weather: E.J. Pratt Part Two: Inner Weather: The Modernists Cross-Drafts: The Modernists The nth Adam: A.M. Klein The Mountaineer: Earle Birney The Swimmer's Moment: Irving Layton War Poets and Postwar Poets Part Three: Perspective: The Inheritors Space and Ancestors: Al Purdy Perspective: Margaret Avison Facts and Dreams Again Poets of a Certain Age Part Four: Quest into Darkness: ThePoet-Novelists The Lake of Darkness: Douglas LePan's Roving Picket A History of Us All: Leonard Cohen Deeper Darkness, after Choreography: Michael Ondaatje Arcana Canadiana: Gwendolyn MacEwen Atwood under and above Water Bourgeois and Arsonist: David Helwig Conclusion Index

About the Author :
Tom Marshall is associate professor of English atQueen's University. He is former editor of Quarry and haspublished several books of poetry and literary criticism.

Review :
A remarkable feat of research and summary, and will be a useful introduction to modern Canadian poetry. - Peter Buitenhuis (Globe and Mail) A survey with many valuable insights and suggestive ideas. - Louis Dudek (Canadian Forum)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780774857895
  • Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of British Columbia Press
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: The Major Canadian Poets and the Making of a Canadian Tradition
  • ISBN-10: 0774857897
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 1979
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 198


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