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Selected Poetry and Critical Prose Charles G.D. Roberts

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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1974

About this book

The purpose of this selection of critical prose and 118 chronologically arranged poems is to make available to students of Canadian literature the main materials upon which a considered appreciation of Roberts' writing can be based.

Author / Editor information

Keith William :

William J. Keith, who was born and brought up in England, is Professor Emeritus of English at University College, University of Toronto. His is the author of Richard Jefferies: A Critical Study and Charles G.D. Roberts, and has edited Charles G.D. Roberts: Selected Poetry and Critical Prose.Lochhead Douglas :

Douglas Lochhead (1922-2011) was a professor emeritus of Mount Allison University.
Keith William :

William J. Keith, who was born and brought up in England, is Professor Emeritus of English at University College, University of Toronto. His is the author of Richard Jefferies: A Critical Study and Charles G.D. Roberts, and has edited Charles G.D. Roberts: Selected Poetry and Critical Prose.

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    Frontmatter

    i
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    Preface

    v
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    Contents

    vii
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    Introduction

    xv
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  • POETRY
  • Orion and Other Poems
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    Orion

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    Epistle to W. Bliss Carman

    21
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    Dedication

    25
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  • In Divers Tones
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    Canada

    29
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    Actiæon

    32
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    In the Afternoon

    40
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    The Pipes of Pan

    44
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    To Fredericton in May-Time

    47
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    In September

    48
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    A Serenade

    49
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    Rain

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    The Tantramar Revisited

    51
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    On the Creek

    54
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    The Sower

    57
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    The Potato Harvest

    58
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    Tides

    59
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    Consolation

    60
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    The Footpath

    61
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    Liberty (From the French of Louis Honore Frechette)

    63
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    Birch and Paddle (To Bliss Carman)

    64
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    An Ode for the Canadian Confederacy

    68
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    The Quelling of the Moose (A Melicite Legend)

    70
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    The Departing of Clote Scarp

    72
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    The Poet is Bidden to Manhattan Island

    74
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  • Ave: An Ode for the Centenary of the Birth of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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    Ave

    79
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  • Songs of the Common Day
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    Prologue

    95
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    The Furrow

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    The Waking Earth

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    The Cow Pasture

    97
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    When Milking-Time is Done

    97
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    Frogs

    98
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    The Salt Flats

    99
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    The Pea-Fields

    99
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    The Mowing

    100
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    Burnt Lands

    101
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    The Clearing

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    Buckwheat

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    The Oat-Threshing

    103
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    The Autumn Thistles

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    The Pumpkins in the Corn

    104
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    The Winter Fields

    105
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    In an Old Barn

    105
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    Midwinter Thaw

    106
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    The Flight of the Geese

    107
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    In the Wide Awe and Wisdom of the Night

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    The Herring Weir

    108
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    Blomidon

    109
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    O Solitary of the Austere Sky

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    Marsyas

    110
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    Severance

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    Epitaph for a Sailor Buried Ashore

    112
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    The Silver Thaw

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    The Lily of the Valley

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    The Wild-Rose Thicket

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    Grey Rocks and Greyer Sea

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    New Year's Eve (After the French of Frechette)

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    How the Mohawks Set Out for Medoctec

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    The Wood Frolic

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  • The Book of the Native
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    Where the Cattle Come to Drink

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    An Epitaph for a Husbandman

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    The Stillness of the Frost

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    A Child's Prayer at Evening

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    The Frosted Pane

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    The Brook in February

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    Beside the Winter Sea

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    The Trout Brook

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    Butterflies

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    An August Wood-Road

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    The Lone Wharf

    136
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    Twilight on Sixth Avenue

    137
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  • New York Nocturnes and Other Poems
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    Presence

    141
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    In a City Room

    142
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    A Nocturne of Consecration

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    An Evening Communion

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    Beyond the Tops of Time

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    At Tide Water

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    The Falling Leaves

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    The Solitary Woodsman

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    Ice

    156
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    Ascription

    157
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  • Poems
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    The Skater

    161
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    On the Elevated Railroad at 110th Street

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    The Flocks of Spring

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    Brooklyn Bridge

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    At the Drinking Fountain

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    The Farmer's Winter Morning

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    In the Barn-Yard's Southerly Corner

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    The Logs

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    The Fear of Love

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    The Native

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    Child of the Infinite

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    Lines for an Omar Punch-Bowl

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    The Aim

    182
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    'The Unknown City'

    185
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    O Earth, Sufficing All Our Needs

    187
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    Monition

    188
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    All Night the Lone Cicada

    189
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    From the High Window of Your Room

    190
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    The Hour of Most Desire

    191
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    The Stream

    192
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    Going Over

    193
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  • The Vagrant of Time
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    The Vagrant of Time

    197
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    In the Night Watches

    200
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    Hath Hope Kept Vigil

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    Epitaph

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    Spring Breaks in Foam

    204
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    Philander's Song (From 'The Sprightly Pilgrim')

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  • The Iceberg and Other Poems
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    The Iceberg

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    Taormina

    217
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    Presences

    219
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    The Squatter

    221
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    Westcock Hill

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    Spirit of Beauty

    227
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    Quebec, 1757 (From the French of Philippe Aubert de Gaspe)

    229
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    To a Certain Mystic

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  • Canada Speaks of Britain
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    Peace with Dishonour

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    Two Rivers

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    Twilight over Shaugamauk

    240
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  • Critical Prose
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    The Beginnings of a Canadian Literature

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    The Outlook for Literature: Acadia's Field for Poetry, History and Romance

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    Introduction to Poems of Wild Life

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    Wordsworth's Poetry

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    The Poetry of Nature

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    Shelley's Adonais

    282
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    A Note on Modernism

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    From the Prefatory Note to Selected Poems

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    Notes

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    Bibliography

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    Index of Poems

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