Harsh and lovely land : the major Canadian poets and the making of a Canadian tradition / / Tom Marshall

• Autore: Marshall Tom <1938-1993.>
• Pubblicazione: Vancouver, : University of British Columbia Press, 1980, c1979
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 184 pages)
• Disciplina: 811/.009
• Soggetto topico: Canadian poetry - History and criticism; Poets, Canadian
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Half-Breeds: The Pioneers -- Dear Bad Poets -- Mountaineers and Swimmers -- Archibald Lampman -- Half-Breeds -- Weather -- Cross-Drafts -- The nth Adam -- The Mountaineer -- The Swimmer's Moment -- War Poets and Postwar Poets -- Perspective: The Inheritors -- Space and Ancestors -- Perspective -- Facts and Dreams Again -- Poets of a Certain Age -- Quest into Darkness: The Poet-Novelists -- The Lake of Darkness -- A History of Us All -- Deeper Darkness, after Choreography -- Arcana Canadiana -- Atwood under and above Water -- Bourgeois and Arsonist -- Conclusion -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Harsh and lovely land
• ISBN: 1-283-22680-4; 9786613226808; 0-7748-5789-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780548403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II