Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Half-Breeds: The Pioneers
6. Dear Bad Poets 3
7. Mountaineers and Swimmers 9
8. Archibald Lampman 17
9. Half-Breeds 24
10. Weather 34
11. Cross-Drafts 44
12. The nth Adam 55
13. The Mountaineer 61
14. The Swimmer’s Moment 67
15. War Poets and Postwar Poets 76
16. Perspective: The Inheritors
17. Space and Ancestors 89
18. Perspective 99
19. Facts and Dreams Again 107
20. Poets of a Certain Age 112
21. Quest into Darkness: The Poet-Novelists
22. The Lake of Darkness 123
23. A History of Us All 135
24. Deeper Darkness, after Choreography 145
25. Arcana Canadiana 150
26. Atwood under and above Water 154
27. Bourgeois and Arsonist 162
28. Conclusion 171
29. Index 181