Selections from Canadian poets / / Edward Hartley Dewart ; introduction by Douglas Lochhead

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910809651903321
• Autore: Dewart Edward Hartley <828-1903, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1973; ©1973
• ISBN: 1-4426-3822-2; 1-4426-5373-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 pages)
• Collana: Literature of Canada Poetry and Prose in Reprint
• Disciplina: 811.008
• Soggetti: Canadian poetry; Poesie; Poetry; poetry; Electronic books.; Canada Poetry
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Despondency.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTORY ESSAY; Sacred and Reflective; Dawn; The Stars; God; Short Days; The Dying Warrior; Seeking; What do we Live for?; To the Sea; I am not Sad; Old Hannah; Death of Captain Vicars; Under the Snow; Spring; The Good Man's Grave; The Arctic Indian's Faith; Song of Mary Magdalene; Voices of the Death-Chamber; Emigrant's Funeral; My Soul is Heavy; I come to the Well; Go Dream no More; I shall Depart; Ever with Thee; Death of the Pauper Child; Dreams of the Dead; Song of Confidence; Infinite; Unutterable Thoughts; The Coming Year; The Second Advent.; Voices of the PastAt Evening Time it shall be Light; Descriptive and National; The fine Old Woods; Our Native Land; Jacques Cartier; The Dying Summer; A Canadian Summer's Night; Viger Square; The Chaudiere Falls; Britannia; Brock; In Memoriam of October 25, 1854; The Highland Emigrant's last Farewell; Home-sick Stanzas; Our own Broad Lake; Canada; Song for Canada; The Forest; The Rapid; Fall; The ; Maple; Canada's Welcome; Indian Summer; The Lake of the Thousand Isles; The Thousand Islands; Approach to Quebec; The Plains of Abraham; Alma; The Two-fold Victory; The Soldier of Auvergne.; Thunderstorm in AugustFrost on the Window-pane; Snow; Sunset Scene; Autumn; In the Woods; The Falls of Niagara; Sunset; May; November; The Fisherman's Light; To an Owl; Whip-poor-Will; Haunts of a Demon; Evening Scene on the Banks of the Detroit River; The Watcher; The Sleigh-Bell; Oh can you Leave your Native Land; Sonnets-Winter Night; Winter in Canada; Lake Erie; St George's Flag; Ontario; I've Wandered in the Sunny South; The Emblems of our Homes; How they Died at Thansi; Evening; The Canadian Herd-Boy; The Old Sugar Camp; The Voyageur's Song; Address to the River Garnock.; Miscellaneous PiecesHeroes; The Night Cometh; Colin; Unselfish Love; A Voice for the Times; The Student; The Apple Woman; Memory Bells; Oh for an Hour of Childhood; Where'er we may Wander; Good Night; Dreams; Weaving; Bind the Rose; Toujours Fidele; Passage of the Beresina; After Defeat; Little Flora; A Fragment; Ideal Land; Our Little Boy; ""Omemee""-The Dove; Given and Taken; Conscious Madness; Sisera; Twilight; Weary; The Shipwreck; Rosa; Lay her down Silently; The Light in the Window Pane; Invocation; Glimpses of Highland Superstitions; The Grey Linnet; Words; Why do you Envy Me?; To my SonMinniebel; Impromptu on a Beautiful Butterfly; Dawn; Taapookaa; Garibaldi; Drink; The Prodigal's Soliloquy; Childhood; The Little Shoes; The Child of Promise; The Song of a Glorified Spirit; A Northern Rune; Summer Evening; Call me by my Christian Name; Oh the Days when I was Young; Sing me the Songs I Love; My Cousin; Angels of the Blind; Little Willie; Farewell; Hope in Sorrow; The Beech-Nut Gatherer; The Life-Forge; Sea-Shore Musings; The Englishman's Farewell; The Night-Wind; Tne Pearl; The Earth's Complaint; To my Sister; Saul struggling with Malzah; Across the River.
• Sommario/riassunto: Selections from Canadian Poets set an important precedent when it was published in 1864. This anthology, like any other, reflects the tastes of the anthologist and the tenor of the times.