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True Poetry?
True Poetry scholarly treatment
2014/1/20
The problems that plague this book begin with its title. For my purpose, however, it is convenient to start with the subtitle: Traditional and Popular Verse in Ontario. I had expected — surely with re...
Zailig Pollock's edition of A.M. Klein's Complete Poems is a highly important contribution to Canadian scholarship and a very worthy addition to the existing volumes in The Collected Works of A.M. Kle...
The results of the recent SSHRCC competition for Aid to Learned Journals have now been announced, and I have been informed that Canadian Poetry will not receive support. Needless to say, this decisio...
Contemporary Canadian Women Poets and the Inability Topos
the Inability Topos Contemporary Canadian Women Poets
2014/1/20
"The lack of a sound university training has always made it impossible for me to distinguish between an iambic and a dactyl, . . . if this were not enough to condemn one for ever . . ." (7). So wrote...
Isabella Valancy Crawford and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Isabella Valancy Crawford Elizabeth Barrett Browning
2014/1/20
Isabella Valancy Crawford's long poem Malcolm's Katie: A Love Story has been convincingly linked with Tennyson's domestic idylls by Elizabeth Waterston,1 but what has yet to be explored is the influen...
John Quinn arranged W.B. Yeats's first so-called "American Tour" of 1903-04 to expose Yeats's poetry and ideas on cultural nationalism to a wider, cosmopolitan audience. The tour was an attempt to ga...
Just about the time these books came for review, I also received through the mail a cache of the latest ECW Press publicity material. A sheet devoted to the Canadian Writers and Their Works series, a...
The most important part of the review is Roberts' discussion of literary influence. After perceptively noting that the major influences on Lampman are Keats ("that shaper of poets"), Emerson ("the c...
in a whimsical passage from Repetition that Heidegger no doubt remembered, Kierkegaard's narrator ridicules those thinkers who pretend to celebrate the noisy flux of human becoming while covertly retu...
Between Two Worlds
Between Two Worlds promises
2014/1/20
This ambitious, provocative book offers both more and less than its title promises. Caroline Bayard's inquiry into the presuppositions of contemporary poetry goes far beyond an examination of Canadia...
Monumentalités
Monumentalités Philip McMaster
2014/1/18
Early in the morning of November 16, 1992 -- the anniversary of the hanging of Louis Riel on November 16, 1885 -- a bronze statue of Sir John A. Macdonald in downtown Montreal was decapitated and the ...
Details of A.M. Klein's interactions with the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation1 are confusingly reported by Usher Caplan in Like One That Dreamed. According to Caplan, Klein was encouraged by A.J.M. S...
Radiant Inventories: A Natural History of the Natural Histories
Radiant Inventories the Natural Histories
2014/1/18
A Natural History of Southwestern Ontario by Christopher Dewdney is a scientific catalogue that itemizes erotic details in a natural landscape, the entire text presenting itself as a serialized list s...
The body of Phyllis Webb's poetry aptly illustrates the transition of a woman poet from god-centered reverence toward self-realization and freedom both as woman and writer. Webb challenges T.S. Eliot'...
A few days before Professor Bentley invited me to review this book, a sales representative from Oxford University Press had urged me to adopt it as a set-text in my Canadian Poetry course. Moreover, I...