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The essential Jay Macpherson / selected by Melissa Dalgleish.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dalgleish, Melissa, author.
- Series:
- Essential poets (Erin, Ont.) ; 15.
- Essential Poets ; 15
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Macpherson, Jay.
- Canadian poetry--20th century.
- Canadian poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (66 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Erin, Ontario : The Porcupine's Quill, 2017.
- Summary:
- The Essential Jay Macpherson reveals an unexpected complexity in the poetry of one of the leading figures of Canada's mythopoeic modernist movement.
- Contents:
- Non-identification
- Ordinary people in the last days
- Poor child
- Private deluge
- The comforter
- The comforted
- The thrid eye
- Goddesses
- Ideas of order
- She
- The ill wild
- Eve in reflection
- Sibylla
- Euynome
- Love in Egypt
- The marriage of Earth and heaven
- The swan
- Siybylla
- Eurynome
- The rymer
- Mary of Egypt
- The anagogic man
- The secret sleeper
- The garden of the sexes
- Go take the world ...
- Egg
- Phoenix
- Book
- Retina
- The fisherman
- Ark apprehensive
- Ark Overwhelmed
- Ark parting
- The love-song of Jenny Lear
- Love-song II pf Jenny Lear
- The beauty of Job's daughters
- Of creatures the net
- A mermaid's grave
- No man's nightingale
- The boatman
- Leviathan
- A dry light
- The dark air
- Poets & muses
- Hampstead ponds
- Absence, havoc
- Some ghosts & some ghouls
- Lady haunts ghosts
- A lost soul
- Hecate triva
- Orion
- Discovery
- What Falada said
- For this ointment
- The ballad of Dr. Coolie
- Plants
- A winter night (Long after lampman).
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 4, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 0-88984-840-8
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