Harsh and lovely land : the major Canadian poets and the making of a Canadian tradition / Tom Marshall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marshall, Tom, 1938-1993.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--History and criticism.

Canadian poetry.

Poets, Canadian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 184 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 1980, c1979.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Half-Breeds: The Pioneers

Dear Bad Poets

Mountaineers and Swimmers

Archibald Lampman

Half-Breeds

Weather

Cross-Drafts

The nth Adam

The Mountaineer

The Swimmer's Moment

War Poets and Postwar Poets

Perspective: The Inheritors

Space and Ancestors

Perspective

Facts and Dreams Again

Poets of a Certain Age

Quest into Darkness: The Poet-Novelists

The Lake of Darkness

A History of Us All

Deeper Darkness, after Choreography

Arcana Canadiana

Atwood under and above Water

Bourgeois and Arsonist

Conclusion

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-22680-4

9786613226808

0-7748-5789-7

OCLC:

243616508