Selected Poetry and Critical Prose Charles G.D. Roberts
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With contributions by:
William Keith
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
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
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Preface
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Contents
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Introduction
xv - POETRY
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Orion
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Epistle to W. Bliss Carman
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Dedication
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Canada
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Actiæon
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In the Afternoon
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The Pipes of Pan
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To Fredericton in May-Time
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In September
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A Serenade
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Rain
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The Tantramar Revisited
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On the Creek
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The Sower
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The Potato Harvest
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Tides
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Consolation
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The Footpath
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Liberty (From the French of Louis Honore Frechette)
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Birch and Paddle (To Bliss Carman)
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An Ode for the Canadian Confederacy
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The Quelling of the Moose (A Melicite Legend)
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The Departing of Clote Scarp
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The Poet is Bidden to Manhattan Island
74 - Ave: An Ode for the Centenary of the Birth of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Ave
79 - Songs of the Common Day
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Prologue
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The Furrow
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The Waking Earth
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The Cow Pasture
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When Milking-Time is Done
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Frogs
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The Salt Flats
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The Pea-Fields
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The Mowing
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Burnt Lands
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The Clearing
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Buckwheat
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The Oat-Threshing
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The Autumn Thistles
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The Pumpkins in the Corn
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The Winter Fields
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In an Old Barn
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Midwinter Thaw
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The Flight of the Geese
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In the Wide Awe and Wisdom of the Night
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The Herring Weir
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Blomidon
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O Solitary of the Austere Sky
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Marsyas
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Severance
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Epitaph for a Sailor Buried Ashore
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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
121 - 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
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Twilight on Sixth Avenue
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Presence
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In a City Room
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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
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Ascription
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The Skater
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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
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'The Unknown City'
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O Earth, Sufficing All Our Needs
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Monition
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All Night the Lone Cicada
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From the High Window of Your Room
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The Hour of Most Desire
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The Stream
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Going Over
193 - The Vagrant of Time
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The Vagrant of Time
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In the Night Watches
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Hath Hope Kept Vigil
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Epitaph
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Spring Breaks in Foam
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Philander's Song (From 'The Sprightly Pilgrim')
204 - The Iceberg and Other Poems
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The Iceberg
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Taormina
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Presences
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The Squatter
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Westcock Hill
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Spirit of Beauty
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Quebec, 1757 (From the French of Philippe Aubert de Gaspe)
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To a Certain Mystic
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Peace with Dishonour
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Two Rivers
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Twilight over Shaugamauk
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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
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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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