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Harsh and Lovely Land

The Major Canadian Poets and the Making of a Canadian Tradition
  • Tom Marshall
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1979
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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.
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.

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Tom Marshall is associate professor of English at Queen's University. He is former editor of Quarry and has published several books of poetry and literary criticism.

Reviews

Louis Dudek:
A survey with many valuable insights and suggestive ideas.

Peter Buitenhuis:
A remarkable feat of research and summary, and will be a useful introduction to modern Canadian poetry.


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Half-Breeds: The Pioneers

Tentative Approaches to the Canadian Space
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Roberts and Carman Revisited
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More Facts and Dreams
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Duncan Campbell Scott
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E.J. Pratt
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The Modernists
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A.M. Klein
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Earle Birney
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Irving Layton
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Perspective: The Inheritors

Al Purdy
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Margaret Avison
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Quest into Darkness: The Poet-Novelists

Douglas LePan’s Roving Picket
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Leonard Cohen
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Michael Ondaatje
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Gwendolyn MacEwen
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David Helwig
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