LEADER 04474nam 2200625 450 001 9910455674203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-04218-1 010 $a9786612042188 010 $a1-4426-8159-4 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442681590 035 $a(CKB)2420000000004454 035 $a(EBL)3255424 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000301337 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11273032 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000301337 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10263943 035 $a(PQKB)10825286 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672086 035 $a(DE-B1597)464982 035 $a(OCoLC)944177461 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442681590 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3255424 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672086 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257769 035 $a(OCoLC)244768786 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000004454 100 $a20160922h19991999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe last Canadian poet $ean essay on Al Purdy /$fSam Solecki 210 1$aToronto, Ontario ;$aBuffalo, New York ;$aLondon, England :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1999. 210 4$dİ1999 215 $a1 online resource (337 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8020-4715-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAbbreviations -- $tI. Poetry, Nation, and the Last Canadian Poet -- $t1. Bliss Carman's Shadow -- $t2. D.H. Lawrence in North America -- $t3. The Limits of Lyric -- $t4. Poetry and the Poet -- $t5. Starting from Ameliasburg: Old Rid, Owen Roblin, and Al -- $t6. History and Nation -- $t7. Origins and Being -- $t8. Conclusion: The Future of the Past -- $tAPPENDIX. Annotating the Poems of Al Purdy: Quotation, Allusion, Echo, and (Some) References -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn The Last Canadian Poet Sam Solecki offers the first book-length study of the entire body of work of Al Purdy. The book grew out of Solecki's work as editor of The Canadian Forum (1979-82), and his growing sense that, despite being one of Canada's major poets, Purdy has been ignored by critics and academics. This book takes into account not only Purdy's more than forty published books, but also the manuscripts from the Purdy archives at the University of Saskatchewan and Queen's University. It is the first serious study of Purdy's work since George Bowering's monograph was published thirty years ago.The Last Canadian Poet suggests that Purdy's work articulates a vision of Canada, both of what it is and of what it might be. It is a poetic vision of one man's encounter with his country and the world. Purdy's poems record his sense of being in the world as a Canadian, of being rooted in a particular landscape, way of life, and history. They also show the struggle for a Canadian poetics, a way of writing in what might be called the Canadian grain.The book also argues that Purdy's forging of a native poetic idiom occurred at roughly the same time that the nationalist phase of Canadian political and cultural development was coming to an end. In the 1960s, at the very moment when Canadian nationalism had gained general acceptance, a crucial shift was occurring not only in how the Canadian state and nation were being defined but also in how Canadians viewed their relationship to literature. The book offers an essentially conservative defence of what some critics have called the 'national-referential aesthetic' that underlays much of the literary production and cultural criticism of Canada's first century. It also questions the influence of multiculturalism and postcolonial criticism on the contemporary devaluation of the traditions, works, and history of the past hundred years. In this context, Purdy's poetry plays an important role in a larger argument about Canadian identity and nationhood and the need for a more nuanced attitude towards the past. 606 $aNational characteristics, Canadian, in literature 607 $aCanada$xIn literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aNational characteristics, Canadian, in literature. 676 $a811/.54 700 $aSolecki$b Sam$0465365 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455674203321 996 $aThe last Canadian poet$92462980 997 $aUNINA