Harsh and Lovely Land

The Major Canadian Poets and the Making of a Canadian Tradition

By Tom Marshall
Categories: Literature & Language Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, History, Canadian History
Publisher: UBC Press
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774843515, 198 pages, November 2011
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774857895, 198 pages, January 1979

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: The
Poet-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

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.

Description

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.

Reviews

A survey with many valuable insights and suggestive ideas.

- Louis Dudek

A remarkable feat of research and summary, and will be a useful introduction to modern Canadian poetry.

- Peter Buitenhuis