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Literary & Poetic Heritage in Print
Literature, poetry and plays by Canada’s major authors and poets of the nineteenth and twentieth century. Titles in the collection are organized by literary form and then by the date of publication.
Orion, and Other Poems
Roberts, Charles G. D. (Charles George Douglas), Sir, 1860–1943
J. B. Lippincott and Company, 1880
Title
Orion, and Other Poems
Description
Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943) was a poet, teacher, editor, and professor. Known as the "Father of Canadian Poetry," Roberts is recognized as the leader of the first major group of Canadian poets in the last two decades of the nineteenth century, known as the Confederation group. It consisted of Bliss Carman, Archibald Lampman, Duncan Campbell Scott , William Wilfred Campbell, and Pauline Johnson. Roberts graduated from the University of New Brunswick in 1879 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He exerted considerable influence on Canadian poetry, literature, and culture.
Roberts is most known for the animal stories and woodsman tales, which he began to write in the early 1890s. Titles in this category are Earth's Enigmas (Lamson, Wolffe, 1896), The Heart of the Ancient Wood (Copp, Clark, 1900), The Kindred of the Wild (Copp, Clark, 1902), The Watchers of the Trails (Copp, Clark, 1904), Red Fox (Copp, Clark, 1905), and The Haunters of the Silences (Montreal News, 1907).
In Divers Tones (1887) and Songs of the Common Day and Ave! An Ode for the Shelley Centenary (1893) are considered to be his most successful collections of verse.
Orion, and Other Poems was Roberts's first book of poetry, composed while he was undergraduate and published at the age of twenty. The poems are strongly imitative and are influenced by the style of British Romantic poets: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Matthew Arnold, and John Keats. However, Canadian, American, and British critics recognized the publication of the volume as a a major new chapter in the development of distinctive Canadian poetry. According to Roy Daniells, Orion is a "landmark" in Canadian literary history.
The front endpapers are signed by C.C. James.
Roberts is most known for the animal stories and woodsman tales, which he began to write in the early 1890s. Titles in this category are Earth's Enigmas (Lamson, Wolffe, 1896), The Heart of the Ancient Wood (Copp, Clark, 1900), The Kindred of the Wild (Copp, Clark, 1902), The Watchers of the Trails (Copp, Clark, 1904), Red Fox (Copp, Clark, 1905), and The Haunters of the Silences (Montreal News, 1907).
In Divers Tones (1887) and Songs of the Common Day and Ave! An Ode for the Shelley Centenary (1893) are considered to be his most successful collections of verse.
Orion, and Other Poems was Roberts's first book of poetry, composed while he was undergraduate and published at the age of twenty. The poems are strongly imitative and are influenced by the style of British Romantic poets: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Matthew Arnold, and John Keats. However, Canadian, American, and British critics recognized the publication of the volume as a a major new chapter in the development of distinctive Canadian poetry. According to Roy Daniells, Orion is a "landmark" in Canadian literary history.
The front endpapers are signed by C.C. James.
Creator
Roberts, Charles G. D. (Charles George Douglas), Sir, 1860–1943
Source
Canadiana
Publisher
J. B. Lippincott and Company
Date
1880
Rights
Public domain
Identifier
PR5231 .O7
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Among the Millet: And Other Poems
Lampman, Archibald, 1861–1899
J. Durie and Son, 1888
Title
Among the Millet: And Other Poems
Description
Archibald Lampman (1861–1899) was a poet, teacher, civil servant, and columnist. He is celebrated as the finest poet writing in English in nineteenth-century Canada, inspired by his immediate surroundings, whose sonnets precisely convey the extremes of Canadian environment. His legacy symbolizes a departure from colonial romanticism in Canadian poetry.
Lampman attended Trinity College, University of Toronto, and was active Episkopon, a student literary society. His poetic and prosaic contributions to Rouge et Noir, the journal of the club, represented his first published work.
Lampman's poetry appeared various literary journals, including Week, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Canadian Illustrated News, Century, Current, and Scribner's.
Among the Millet, and Other Poems (Durie, 1888), Alcyone (Ogilvy, 1899), At the Long Sault and Other New Poems (Ryerson, 1943) are Lampman's major poetry collections.
Among the Millet was the first book of verse published by Lampman. The poet sent copies of the collection to the editorial departments of major magazines, including the Statesman and the Academy. The reviews he attracted very highly favourable and helped to establish his reputation for the next decade.
Lampman attended Trinity College, University of Toronto, and was active Episkopon, a student literary society. His poetic and prosaic contributions to Rouge et Noir, the journal of the club, represented his first published work.
Lampman's poetry appeared various literary journals, including Week, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Canadian Illustrated News, Century, Current, and Scribner's.
Among the Millet, and Other Poems (Durie, 1888), Alcyone (Ogilvy, 1899), At the Long Sault and Other New Poems (Ryerson, 1943) are Lampman's major poetry collections.
Among the Millet was the first book of verse published by Lampman. The poet sent copies of the collection to the editorial departments of major magazines, including the Statesman and the Academy. The reviews he attracted very highly favourable and helped to establish his reputation for the next decade.
Creator
Lampman, Archibald, 1861–1899
Source
Canadiana
Publisher
J. Durie and Son
Date
1888
Rights
Public domain
Identifier
PR4865 .L4 A66
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Lyrics of Earth: Sonnets and Ballads
Lampman, Archibald, 1861–1899
Musson Book Company Limited, 1925
Title
Lyrics of Earth: Sonnets and Ballads
Description
Archibald Lampman (1861–1899) was a poet, teacher, civil servant, and columnist. He is celebrated as the finest poet writing in English in nineteenth-century Canada, inspired by his immediate surroundings, whose sonnets precisely convey the extremes of Canadian environment. His legacy symbolizes a departure from colonial romanticism in Canadian poetry.
Lampman attended Trinity College, University of Toronto, and was active Episkopon, a student literary society. His poetic and prosaic contributions to Rouge et Noir, the journal of the club, represented his first published work.
Lampman's poetry appeared various literary journals, including Week, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Canadian Illustrated News, Century, Current, and Scribner's.
Among the Millet, and Other Poems (Durie, 1888), Alcyone (Ogilvy, 1899), At the Long Sault and Other New Poems (Ryerson, 1943) are Lampman's major poetry collections.
Lyrics of Earth is a collection of twenty-nine poems. Five hundred and fifty copies were printed and the poems attracted limited critical attention, much to Lampman's disappointment.
Lampman attended Trinity College, University of Toronto, and was active Episkopon, a student literary society. His poetic and prosaic contributions to Rouge et Noir, the journal of the club, represented his first published work.
Lampman's poetry appeared various literary journals, including Week, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Canadian Illustrated News, Century, Current, and Scribner's.
Among the Millet, and Other Poems (Durie, 1888), Alcyone (Ogilvy, 1899), At the Long Sault and Other New Poems (Ryerson, 1943) are Lampman's major poetry collections.
Lyrics of Earth is a collection of twenty-nine poems. Five hundred and fifty copies were printed and the poems attracted limited critical attention, much to Lampman's disappointment.
Creator
Lampman, Archibald, 1861–1899
Source
Canadiana
Publisher
Musson Book Company Limited
Date
1925
Contributor
Scott, Duncan Campbell, 1862–1947
Pratt, E. J. (Edwin John), 1882–1964
Pratt, E. J. (Edwin John), 1882–1964
Identifier
PR4865 .L4 L8 1925
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At the Long Sault: And Other New Poems
Lampman, Archibald, 1861–1899
Ryerson Press, 1943
Title
At the Long Sault: And Other New Poems
Description
Archibald Lampman (1861–1899) was a poet, teacher, civil servant, and columnist. He is celebrated as the finest poet writing in English in nineteenth-century Canada, inspired by his immediate surroundings, whose sonnets precisely convey the extremes of Canadian environment. His legacy symbolizes a departure from colonial romanticism in Canadian poetry.
Lampman attended Trinity College, University of Toronto, and was active Episkopon, a student literary society. His poetic and prosaic contributions to Rouge et Noir, the journal of the club, represented his first published work.
Lampman's poetry appeared various literary journals, including Week, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Canadian Illustrated News, Century, Current, and Scribner's.
Among the Millet, and Other Poems (Durie, 1888), Alcyone (Ogilvy, 1899), At the Long Sault and Other New Poems (Ryerson, 1943) are Lampman's major poetry collections.
At the Long Sault is a collection of previously unpublished verse from the notebooks of the poet. It is bound in light blue paper covered boards printed in black with illustration by Thoreau MacDonald.
Lampman attended Trinity College, University of Toronto, and was active Episkopon, a student literary society. His poetic and prosaic contributions to Rouge et Noir, the journal of the club, represented his first published work.
Lampman's poetry appeared various literary journals, including Week, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Canadian Illustrated News, Century, Current, and Scribner's.
Among the Millet, and Other Poems (Durie, 1888), Alcyone (Ogilvy, 1899), At the Long Sault and Other New Poems (Ryerson, 1943) are Lampman's major poetry collections.
At the Long Sault is a collection of previously unpublished verse from the notebooks of the poet. It is bound in light blue paper covered boards printed in black with illustration by Thoreau MacDonald.
Creator
Lampman, Archibald, 1861–1899
Source
Canadiana
Publisher
Ryerson Press
Date
1943
Contributor
Brown, E. K. (Edward Killoran), 1905–1951
MacDonald, Thoreau, 1901–1989, artist
Scott, Duncan Campbell, 1862–1947
MacDonald, Thoreau, 1901–1989, artist
Scott, Duncan Campbell, 1862–1947
Identifier
PR4865 .L4 A8
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New World Lyrics and Ballads
Scott, Duncan Campbell, 1862–1947
Morang and Company, Limited, 1905
Title
New World Lyrics and Ballads
Description
Duncan Campbell Scott (1862–1947) was a poet, civil servant, critic, biographer, and columnist. He was educated at Wesleyan College, in Stanstead, Quebec, from 1877 to 1879. Scott was the leading figure in the Confederation group of poets, along with Bliss Carman, Archibald Lampman, and Charles G. D. Roberts, who are recognized for their contribution to cultivating a national identity in the newly established Dominion of Canada.
The Magic House: And Other Poems (J. Durie and Son, 1893), Beauty and Life (McClelland and Stewart Company Limited, 1921), and The Green Cloister: Later Poems (McClelland and Stewart Company Limited, 1935) are considered to be Scott's most accomplished lyric and dramatic poems.
His career in public service at Indian Branch (later renamed as the Department of Indian Affairs) spanned five decades (between 1879 and 1932), with Scott progressing from his initial appointment as a clerk third class to the position of the deputy superintendent general in his last year of employment.
Scott was a recipient of numerous prestigious awards and honours, including an honourary Doctor of Letters degree from the University of Toronto (awarded in 1922), Doctor of Laws from Queen's University (1939). He was a recipient of the Lorne Pierce Medal in 1927 and served as a fellow, honourary secretary, and president of the Royal Society of Canada. He was also appointed as a fellow Royal Society of Literature (United Kingdom) and Companion, Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1934.
New World Lyrics and Ballads includes poems "Forsaken" and "On the Way to the Mission," a ballad, "Dominique de Gourgues," and lyrics, "The Wood Peewee" in addition to philosophical verses.
The Magic House: And Other Poems (J. Durie and Son, 1893), Beauty and Life (McClelland and Stewart Company Limited, 1921), and The Green Cloister: Later Poems (McClelland and Stewart Company Limited, 1935) are considered to be Scott's most accomplished lyric and dramatic poems.
His career in public service at Indian Branch (later renamed as the Department of Indian Affairs) spanned five decades (between 1879 and 1932), with Scott progressing from his initial appointment as a clerk third class to the position of the deputy superintendent general in his last year of employment.
Scott was a recipient of numerous prestigious awards and honours, including an honourary Doctor of Letters degree from the University of Toronto (awarded in 1922), Doctor of Laws from Queen's University (1939). He was a recipient of the Lorne Pierce Medal in 1927 and served as a fellow, honourary secretary, and president of the Royal Society of Canada. He was also appointed as a fellow Royal Society of Literature (United Kingdom) and Companion, Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1934.
New World Lyrics and Ballads includes poems "Forsaken" and "On the Way to the Mission," a ballad, "Dominique de Gourgues," and lyrics, "The Wood Peewee" in addition to philosophical verses.
Creator
Scott, Duncan Campbell, 1862–1947
Source
Canadiana
Publisher
Morang and Company, Limited
Date
1905
Relation
Public domain
Identifier
PR6037 .C9 N4
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Low Tide on Grand Pré: A Book of Lyrics
Carman, Bliss, 1861–1929
Stone and Kimball, 1894
Title
Low Tide on Grand Pré: A Book of Lyrics
Description
William Bliss Carman (1861–1929) was an editor, essayist and poet. He was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He graduated from the University of New Brunswick in 1881 after which he attended Edinburgh University in Scotland for two years. In 1883, he returned to Fredericton where he taught at Collegiate Grammar School and read law, receiving an M.A. in 1884. From 1886 to 1888, he did post graduate work in history and philosophy at Harvard.
Subsequently, he was employed on the editorial staffs of various literary publications in New York, Chicago and Boston, including The Atlantic, Cosmopolitan, Current Literature, The Chapbook, The Independent, Literary World, and The Outlook.
In 1896, Carman met Dr. Morris Lee King and his wife, Mary Perry King. He collaborated with Mrs. King on The Making of Personality (L. C. Page, 1908) and on several other books, brochures, masques and interpretive dances.
In 1925, Carman was made Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1906 he was awarded an LL.D. by the University of New Brunswick, and in 1928 he received the Lorne Pierce Gold Medal from the Royal Society of Canada. Posthumously, he received a medal from the Poetry Society of America.
Victoria University Library holds the Bliss Carman fonds, consists of records pertaining to Carman's activities as a poet and to his personal life. The fonds includes correspondence, poems, photographs, and other material.
Low Tide on Grand Pré is the first collection of verse published by Carman, recognized by critic Desmond Pacey as his most successful: "Written before he had come under the influence of unitrinianism or been persuaded by Mary Perry King that the artist's duty was to spread sweetness and light, it is a forthright but subtle expression of Carman's sincere moods and insights. If we have read his personality aright, Carman was naturally a shy, sad, wistful man whose deepest experiences were those of failure and loss."
Creator
Carman, Bliss, 1861–1929
Source
Canadiana
Publisher
Stone and Kimball
Date
1894
Subject
Poetry of places—Nova Scotia—Grand Pré
Grand Pré (N.S.)—Description—Poetry
Grand Pré (N.S.)—Description—Poetry
Rights
Public domain
Identifier
PR4441 .L6 1894
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Poems: In Two Volumes
Carman, Bliss, 1861–1929
L.C. Page and Company, 1905
Title
Poems: In Two Volumes
Description
William Bliss Carman (1861–1929) was an editor, essayist and poet. He was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He graduated from the University of New Brunswick in 1881 after which he attended Edinburgh University in Scotland for two years. In 1883, he returned to Fredericton where he taught at Collegiate Grammar School and read law, receiving an M.A. in 1884. From 1886 to 1888, he did post graduate work in history and philosophy at Harvard.
Subsequently, he was employed on the editorial staffs of various literary publications in New York, Chicago and Boston, including The Atlantic, Cosmopolitan, Current Literature, The Chapbook, The Independent, Literary World, and The Outlook.
In 1896, Carman met Dr. Morris Lee King and his wife, Mary Perry King. He collaborated with Mrs. King on The Making of Personality (L. C. Page, 1908) and on several other books, brochures, masques and interpretive dances.
In 1925, Carman was made Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1906 he was awarded an LL.D. by the University of New Brunswick, and in 1928 he received the Lorne Pierce Gold Medal from the Royal Society of Canada. Posthumously, he received a medal from the Poetry Society of America.
Victoria University Library holds the Bliss Carman fonds, consists of records pertaining to Carman's activities as a poet and to his personal life. The collection includes correspondence, poems, photographs, and other material.
Poems the complete collected of Carman's verse, published in a limited edition. Five hundred copies of the book were printed.
Subsequently, he was employed on the editorial staffs of various literary publications in New York, Chicago and Boston, including The Atlantic, Cosmopolitan, Current Literature, The Chapbook, The Independent, Literary World, and The Outlook.
In 1896, Carman met Dr. Morris Lee King and his wife, Mary Perry King. He collaborated with Mrs. King on The Making of Personality (L. C. Page, 1908) and on several other books, brochures, masques and interpretive dances.
In 1925, Carman was made Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1906 he was awarded an LL.D. by the University of New Brunswick, and in 1928 he received the Lorne Pierce Gold Medal from the Royal Society of Canada. Posthumously, he received a medal from the Poetry Society of America.
Victoria University Library holds the Bliss Carman fonds, consists of records pertaining to Carman's activities as a poet and to his personal life. The collection includes correspondence, poems, photographs, and other material.
Poems the complete collected of Carman's verse, published in a limited edition. Five hundred copies of the book were printed.
Creator
Carman, Bliss, 1861–1929
Source
Canadiana Large
Publisher
L.C. Page and Company
Date
1905
Rights
Public domain
Identifier
PR4441 .A1 1905
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The Kinship of Nature
Carman, Bliss, 1861–1929
L.C. Page and Company, 1903
Title
The Kinship of Nature
Description
William Bliss Carman (1861–1929) was an editor, essayist and poet. He was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He graduated from the University of New Brunswick in 1881 after which he attended Edinburgh University in Scotland for two years. In 1883, he returned to Fredericton where he taught at Collegiate Grammar School and read law, receiving an M.A. in 1884. From 1886 to 1888, he did post graduate work in history and philosophy at Harvard.
Subsequently, he was employed on the editorial staffs of various literary publications in New York, Chicago and Boston, including The Atlantic, Cosmopolitan, Current Literature, The Chapbook, The Independent, Literary World, and The Outlook.
In 1896, Carman met Dr. Morris Lee King and his wife, Mary Perry King. He collaborated with Mrs. King on The Making of Personality (L. C. Page, 1908) and on several other books, brochures, masques and interpretive dances.
In 1925, Carman was made Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1906 he was awarded an LL.D. by the University of New Brunswick, and in 1928 he received the Lorne Pierce Gold Medal from the Royal Society of Canada. Posthumously, he received a medal from the Poetry Society of America.
Victoria University Library holds the Bliss Carman fonds, consists of records pertaining to Carman's activities as a poet and to his personal life. The fonds includes correspondence, poems, photographs, and other material.
The Kinship of Nature is one of four books of prose essays of the poet, detailing his theories on poetic inspiration and composition. Poetry is characterized as "certain qualities which pass the threshold of the outer mind and pass in to sway the mysterious subconscious person who inhabits us."
The book is bound in green ribbed cloth with floral design, with lettering in gold on upper cover and spine.
Subsequently, he was employed on the editorial staffs of various literary publications in New York, Chicago and Boston, including The Atlantic, Cosmopolitan, Current Literature, The Chapbook, The Independent, Literary World, and The Outlook.
In 1896, Carman met Dr. Morris Lee King and his wife, Mary Perry King. He collaborated with Mrs. King on The Making of Personality (L. C. Page, 1908) and on several other books, brochures, masques and interpretive dances.
In 1925, Carman was made Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1906 he was awarded an LL.D. by the University of New Brunswick, and in 1928 he received the Lorne Pierce Gold Medal from the Royal Society of Canada. Posthumously, he received a medal from the Poetry Society of America.
Victoria University Library holds the Bliss Carman fonds, consists of records pertaining to Carman's activities as a poet and to his personal life. The fonds includes correspondence, poems, photographs, and other material.
The Kinship of Nature is one of four books of prose essays of the poet, detailing his theories on poetic inspiration and composition. Poetry is characterized as "certain qualities which pass the threshold of the outer mind and pass in to sway the mysterious subconscious person who inhabits us."
The book is bound in green ribbed cloth with floral design, with lettering in gold on upper cover and spine.
Creator
Carman, Bliss, 1861–1929
Source
Canadiana
Publisher
L.C. Page and Company
Date
1903
Subject
Life
Rights
Public domain
Identifier
PR4441 .K5 1904a
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Pipes of Pan
Carman, Bliss, 1861–1929
L.C. Page and Company, 1910
Title
Pipes of Pan
Description
William Bliss Carman (1861–1929) was an editor, essayist and poet. He was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He graduated from the University of New Brunswick in 1881 after which he attended Edinburgh University in Scotland for two years. In 1883, he returned to Fredericton where he taught at Collegiate Grammar School and read law, receiving an M.A. in 1884. From 1886 to 1888, he did post graduate work in history and philosophy at Harvard.
Subsequently, he was employed on the editorial staffs of various literary publications in New York, Chicago and Boston, including The Atlantic, Cosmopolitan, Current Literature, The Chapbook, The Independent, Literary World, and The Outlook.
In 1896, Carman met Dr. Morris Lee King and his wife, Mary Perry King. He collaborated with Mrs. King on The Making of Personality (L. C. Page, 1908) and on several other books, brochures, masques and interpretive dances.
In 1925, Carman was made Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1906 he was awarded an LL.D. by the University of New Brunswick, and in 1928 he received the Lorne Pierce Gold Medal from the Royal Society of Canada. Posthumously, he received a medal from the Poetry Society of America.
Victoria University Library holds the Bliss Carman fonds, consists of records pertaining to Carman's activities as a poet and to his personal life. The fonds includes correspondence, poems, photographs, and other material.
Pipes of Pan is an collection of poetry books, originally published separately as From the Book of the Myths (L.C. Page, 1902), From the Green Book of the Bards (L.C. Page, 1903), Songs of the Sea Children (L.C. Page, 1904), Songs from a Northern Garden (L.C. Page, 1904), and From the Book of Valentines (L.C. Page, 1905).
It is the second series of collected poetry composed by Carmen, preceded by Vagabondia. According to critic Desmond Pacey, each series represents a distinctive stage in Carman's creative and stylistic development as a poet, his "poetic personality." The title poem exemplifies the prevailing theme of the series, the poet's "attempt to revive beauty, love and joy in a world that is rapidly losing them" by depicting the beauty and unity of the natural world.
Subsequently, he was employed on the editorial staffs of various literary publications in New York, Chicago and Boston, including The Atlantic, Cosmopolitan, Current Literature, The Chapbook, The Independent, Literary World, and The Outlook.
In 1896, Carman met Dr. Morris Lee King and his wife, Mary Perry King. He collaborated with Mrs. King on The Making of Personality (L. C. Page, 1908) and on several other books, brochures, masques and interpretive dances.
In 1925, Carman was made Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1906 he was awarded an LL.D. by the University of New Brunswick, and in 1928 he received the Lorne Pierce Gold Medal from the Royal Society of Canada. Posthumously, he received a medal from the Poetry Society of America.
Victoria University Library holds the Bliss Carman fonds, consists of records pertaining to Carman's activities as a poet and to his personal life. The fonds includes correspondence, poems, photographs, and other material.
Pipes of Pan is an collection of poetry books, originally published separately as From the Book of the Myths (L.C. Page, 1902), From the Green Book of the Bards (L.C. Page, 1903), Songs of the Sea Children (L.C. Page, 1904), Songs from a Northern Garden (L.C. Page, 1904), and From the Book of Valentines (L.C. Page, 1905).
It is the second series of collected poetry composed by Carmen, preceded by Vagabondia. According to critic Desmond Pacey, each series represents a distinctive stage in Carman's creative and stylistic development as a poet, his "poetic personality." The title poem exemplifies the prevailing theme of the series, the poet's "attempt to revive beauty, love and joy in a world that is rapidly losing them" by depicting the beauty and unity of the natural world.
Creator
Carman, Bliss, 1861–1929
Source
Canadiana
Publisher
L.C. Page and Company
Date
1910
Rights
Public domain
Identifier
PR4441 .P5 1910
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Songs of a Sourdough
Service, Robert W. (Robert William), 1874—1958
William Briggs, 1915
Title
Songs of a Sourdough
Description
Robert William Service (1874—1958) was a poet and novelist, born in Preston, England. His work (which he preferred to call "ballads," "songs," and "rhymes" instead of "poetry") is often associated with the Klondike Gold Rush. His early verses were published in Glasgow newspapers: the Herald, Scottish Nights, and the People's Friend. Service emigrated to Canada in 1896, travelling extensively throughout North America and working a variety of jobs as a tunnel builder, handyman, and musician, as he claimed in his autobiography.
While working as a bank clerk for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, he was transferred to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory in 1904, where he composed his most-well known work. In 1945, he published an autobiography, Ploughman of the Moon: An Adventure into Memory (Dodd, Mead and Company).
Songs of a Sourdough was his first published volume and includes many popular parlour ballads, such as "The Shooting of Dan McGrew"and "The Cremation of Sam McGee."
While working as a bank clerk for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, he was transferred to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory in 1904, where he composed his most-well known work. In 1945, he published an autobiography, Ploughman of the Moon: An Adventure into Memory (Dodd, Mead and Company).
Songs of a Sourdough was his first published volume and includes many popular parlour ballads, such as "The Shooting of Dan McGrew"and "The Cremation of Sam McGee."
Creator
Service, Robert W. (Robert William), 1874—1958
Source
Canadiana
Publisher
William Briggs
Date
1915
Rights
Public domain
Identifier
PR6037 .E72 S66 1915
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Day and Night: Poems
Livesay, Dorothy, 1909–1996
Ryerson Press, 1944
Title
Day and Night: Poems
Description
Dorothy Livesay (1909–1996) was a poet, journalist, scriptwriter, professor, and social worker. Livesay is recognized as one of the most prominent contemporary Canadian poets. Livesay was a recipient of the Lorne Pierce Medal of Royal Society of Canada in 1947 for Poems for People (Ryerson Press). She holds numerous honourary Doctor of Letters degrees from the University of Waterloo (awarded in 1973) McGill University (1984), University of Toronto (1984), University of British Columbia (1990), and the University of Victoria (1990). She was a founding member of the League of Canadian Poets and was appointed as Officer, Order of Canada, in 1987.
Livesay's publications include Signpost (Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1932), New Poems (Emblem Press, 1955),
The Unquiet Bed (Ryerson, Press, 1967), The Phases of Love (Coach House Press, 1983). She also contributed a novella, The Husband (Ragweed Press, 1990) and autobiographical pieces: A Winnipeg Childhood (Peguis Press, 1973), Right Hand Left Hand (Press Porcepic, 1977) and Journey with My Selves: A Memoir, 1901–1963 (Douglas & McIntyre, 1991).
Livesay's poems have been extensively anthologized and they appeared in many prestigious literary journals: Canadian Literature, Canadian Forum, Fiddlehead, Tamarack Review, Queen's Quarterly, Dalhousie Review, Canadian Dimension, and the Journal of Canadian Fiction.
Day and Night is an example of Livesay's early, political poetry, based on her professional experiences at social service agencies. The collection earned the Governor General's Award in 1944. The book is an author's autographed presentation copy given to E. J. Pratt.
Livesay's publications include Signpost (Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1932), New Poems (Emblem Press, 1955),
The Unquiet Bed (Ryerson, Press, 1967), The Phases of Love (Coach House Press, 1983). She also contributed a novella, The Husband (Ragweed Press, 1990) and autobiographical pieces: A Winnipeg Childhood (Peguis Press, 1973), Right Hand Left Hand (Press Porcepic, 1977) and Journey with My Selves: A Memoir, 1901–1963 (Douglas & McIntyre, 1991).
Livesay's poems have been extensively anthologized and they appeared in many prestigious literary journals: Canadian Literature, Canadian Forum, Fiddlehead, Tamarack Review, Queen's Quarterly, Dalhousie Review, Canadian Dimension, and the Journal of Canadian Fiction.
Day and Night is an example of Livesay's early, political poetry, based on her professional experiences at social service agencies. The collection earned the Governor General's Award in 1944. The book is an author's autographed presentation copy given to E. J. Pratt.
Creator
Livesay, Dorothy, 1909–1996
Source
Canadiana
Publisher
Ryerson Press
Date
1944
Identifier
PR6023 .I8 D3
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Trio: First Poems
Turnbull, Gael
Dudek, Louis, 1918–2001
Mandel, Eli, 1922–1992
Sutherland, Betty, 1921–1984, artist
Webb, Phyllis, 1927–
[Contact Press], 1954
Title
Trio: First Poems
Description
Elias Wolf Mandel (1922–1992) was a poet, academic, critic, and anthologist. Mandel was born in Estevan, Saskatchewan and was educated at the University of Saskatchewan with Bachelor of Arts (1949) and Master of Arts (1950) degrees . His doctorate in English literature at the University of Toronto was completed in 1957. Mandel's rural roots and upbringing in the Jewish communities near Regina influenced his poetry, including Stony Plain (Press Porcépic, 1973), and Out of Place (Press Porcépic, 1977). The poet received the Governor General's Award for An Idiot Joy (M.G. Hurtig, 1967).
Phyllis Webb (1927–) is a poet and broadcaster. In 1949, she graduated from the the University of British Columbia, with a BA in English and philosophy. Webb's early poems are characterized by her awareness of her identity as a female poet composing within a predominantly male tradition. In the sixties and the seventies, Webb turned to writing poems embedded with a female-centred poetic voice, including The Sea Is Also a Garden (Ryerson Press, 1962) and Naked Poems (Periwinkle Press, 1965).
Trio is a joint debut collaboration of the three poets. Critics classified Mandel's early poems as mythopoeics in contrast to his later artistic turn to ironic attitudes and depictions of modern life.
The volume was published by Contact Press, a publisher established as a poets' co-operative by Louis Dudek, Raymond Souster, and Irving Layton in 1952 with the goal of expanding the existing limited publishing opportunities for poets. Contact emerged as one of the most influential small presses in the course of its fifteen-year operation.
Phyllis Webb (1927–) is a poet and broadcaster. In 1949, she graduated from the the University of British Columbia, with a BA in English and philosophy. Webb's early poems are characterized by her awareness of her identity as a female poet composing within a predominantly male tradition. In the sixties and the seventies, Webb turned to writing poems embedded with a female-centred poetic voice, including The Sea Is Also a Garden (Ryerson Press, 1962) and Naked Poems (Periwinkle Press, 1965).
Trio is a joint debut collaboration of the three poets. Critics classified Mandel's early poems as mythopoeics in contrast to his later artistic turn to ironic attitudes and depictions of modern life.
The volume was published by Contact Press, a publisher established as a poets' co-operative by Louis Dudek, Raymond Souster, and Irving Layton in 1952 with the goal of expanding the existing limited publishing opportunities for poets. Contact emerged as one of the most influential small presses in the course of its fifteen-year operation.
Creator
Turnbull, Gael
Dudek, Louis, 1918–2001
Mandel, Eli, 1922–1992
Sutherland, Betty, 1921–1984, artist
Webb, Phyllis, 1927–
Dudek, Louis, 1918–2001
Mandel, Eli, 1922–1992
Sutherland, Betty, 1921–1984, artist
Webb, Phyllis, 1927–
Source
Canadiana
Publisher
[Contact Press]
Date
1954
Identifier
PR6070 .U67 T74
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A Red Carpet for the Sun
Layton, Irving, 1912–2006
McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1959
Title
A Red Carpet for the Sun
Description
Irving Peter Layton (1912–2006) was a poet. He was born Israel Pincus Lazarovitch in Tirgul Neamt, Romania. He settled with his family in Montreal, following their immigration to Canada in 1913. Layton received his education at from Macdonald College, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree, and from McGill University, with a Master of Arts degree in political science. In the early 1940s, Layton became closely associated with a group of Montreal poets, including Louis Dudek, who were centred around First Statement, a literary magazine. Here and Now (First Statement, 1945) was his first collection of poetry.
Layton's prolific career spanned six decades, and Francis Mansbridge credits his legacy with transfiguring "Canadian poetry from the preserve of the WASP elite to a forum where multiple and diverse voices from every facet of our society collide vigourously." Layton's early experiences in the Jewish neighbourhood of Montreal provided him with a frame of reference and attitudes that were in variance from the predominantly Protestant, Anglo-Saxon literary establishment in Canada.
A Red Carpet for the Sun represents Layton's major breakthrough to a Canadian audience, achieving both critical and popular success. The collection features poems from Layton's previously published twelve volumes of poetry, and includes some of his best-known works: "In the Midst of My Fever," "The Birth of Tragedy," and "Orpheus," among others.
Layton's prolific career spanned six decades, and Francis Mansbridge credits his legacy with transfiguring "Canadian poetry from the preserve of the WASP elite to a forum where multiple and diverse voices from every facet of our society collide vigourously." Layton's early experiences in the Jewish neighbourhood of Montreal provided him with a frame of reference and attitudes that were in variance from the predominantly Protestant, Anglo-Saxon literary establishment in Canada.
A Red Carpet for the Sun represents Layton's major breakthrough to a Canadian audience, achieving both critical and popular success. The collection features poems from Layton's previously published twelve volumes of poetry, and includes some of his best-known works: "In the Midst of My Fever," "The Birth of Tragedy," and "Orpheus," among others.
Creator
Layton, Irving, 1912–2006
Source
Canadiana
Publisher
McClelland and Stewart Limited
Date
1959
Contributor
Newfeld, Frank, 1928– artist
Identifier
PR6023 .A97 R42
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North of Summer: Poems from Baffin Island
Purdy, Al, 1918–2000
McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1967
Title
North of Summer: Poems from Baffin Island
Description
Alfred Wellington Purdy (1918–2000) was a poet and editor. He was born in in Wooller (a town in southeastern Ontario). His ancestors were Loyalists settlers who arrived in Upper Canada during the 1780s following the American War of Independence. Many poems deals with the pioneer legacy of his forebears and the cultivated land they cleared of wilderness.
Purdy spent his childhood in Trenton, Ontario and attended Albert College in Belleville and the Trenton Collegiate Institute. Purdy's first collection of poetry, The Enchanted Echo (Clarke and Stuart Company), appeared in 1944. However, with the publication of his fourth book, The Crafte So Long to Lerne (Ryerson Press, 1959) his poems began to attract critical attention. While living in Montreal in the 1950s, Purdy became acquainted with modernist poets, including Irving Layton and Louis Dudek, who mentored Purdy in eliminating the formal and archaic elements of his poems to develop his poetic voice.
He was a prolific poet: his most acclaimed collections are Poems for All the Annettes (Contact Press, 1962), The Cariboo Horses (McClelland and Stewart Company Limited, 1965, recipient of the Governor General's Award), Sex & Death (McClelland and Stewart Company Limited, 1973, recipient of A.J.M. Smith Award), The Stone Bird (McClelland and Stewart Company Limited, 1981) and Piling's Blood (McClelland and Stewart Company Limited, 1984).
North of Summer comprises thirty-two poems, inspired by Purdy's journey to the Arctic. Eight poems are prefaced by oil sketches of Baffin Island by A.Y. Jackson (1882–1974), a prominent Canadian painter and a member of the Group of Seven.
Purdy spent his childhood in Trenton, Ontario and attended Albert College in Belleville and the Trenton Collegiate Institute. Purdy's first collection of poetry, The Enchanted Echo (Clarke and Stuart Company), appeared in 1944. However, with the publication of his fourth book, The Crafte So Long to Lerne (Ryerson Press, 1959) his poems began to attract critical attention. While living in Montreal in the 1950s, Purdy became acquainted with modernist poets, including Irving Layton and Louis Dudek, who mentored Purdy in eliminating the formal and archaic elements of his poems to develop his poetic voice.
He was a prolific poet: his most acclaimed collections are Poems for All the Annettes (Contact Press, 1962), The Cariboo Horses (McClelland and Stewart Company Limited, 1965, recipient of the Governor General's Award), Sex & Death (McClelland and Stewart Company Limited, 1973, recipient of A.J.M. Smith Award), The Stone Bird (McClelland and Stewart Company Limited, 1981) and Piling's Blood (McClelland and Stewart Company Limited, 1984).
North of Summer comprises thirty-two poems, inspired by Purdy's journey to the Arctic. Eight poems are prefaced by oil sketches of Baffin Island by A.Y. Jackson (1882–1974), a prominent Canadian painter and a member of the Group of Seven.
Creator
Purdy, Al, 1918–2000
Source
Canadiana
Publisher
McClelland and Stewart Limited
Date
1967
Subject
Poetry of places—Northwest Territories—Baffin Island
Baffin Island (Nunavut)—Poetry
Baffin Island (Nunavut)—Poetry
Contributor
Jackson, A. Y. (Alexander Young), 1882–1974, artist
Identifier
PR6066 .U7 N6
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The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left Handed Poems
Ondaatje, Michael, 1943–
House of Anansi Press, 1970
Title
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left Handed Poems
Description
Michael Ondaatje (1943–)is a poet, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, critic, editor, and Officer of the Order of Canada (title awarded in 1988).
Ondaatje is celebrated as one of the most accomplished, prolific, and versatile Canadian authors. The publication of The English Patient (McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1992), historiographic metafiction set during the Italian Campaign of World War II established his reputation in the Canadian literary cannon.
He is a recipient of numerous Canadian and international awards, including the E. J. Pratt Medal (received in 1966), Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction (1971, 1980, 1992, 2000), Giller Prize (2000, 2007), Man Booker International Prize (2007), and many others.
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid chronicles the life and death of the nineteenth-century American outlaw. In 1970, the collection received Governor General's Award and positioned Ondaatje as a leading poet of his generation.
Author's inscribed presentation copy to Professor Jay Macpherson (1931–2012).
Ondaatje is celebrated as one of the most accomplished, prolific, and versatile Canadian authors. The publication of The English Patient (McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1992), historiographic metafiction set during the Italian Campaign of World War II established his reputation in the Canadian literary cannon.
He is a recipient of numerous Canadian and international awards, including the E. J. Pratt Medal (received in 1966), Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction (1971, 1980, 1992, 2000), Giller Prize (2000, 2007), Man Booker International Prize (2007), and many others.
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid chronicles the life and death of the nineteenth-century American outlaw. In 1970, the collection received Governor General's Award and positioned Ondaatje as a leading poet of his generation.
Author's inscribed presentation copy to Professor Jay Macpherson (1931–2012).
Creator
Ondaatje, Michael, 1943–
Source
Canadiana
Publisher
House of Anansi Press
Date
1970
Subject
Billy, the Kid Fiction
Billy, the Kid Poetry
Billy, the Kid Poetry
Contributor
Silvester, Robert, artist
Identifier
PR9199.3 .O54 C6 1970
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George, Vancouver: A Discovery Poem
Bowering, George, 1935–
Weed/Flower Press, 1970
Title
George, Vancouver: A Discovery Poem
Description
George Bowering (1936–) is a poet, novelist, editor, critic and professor and is recognized as one Canada's most widely influential authors. He was born on December 1, 1935 in Penticton, British Columbia and spent his childhood Peachland, Summerland, Oliver, and Greenwood and other towns in Okanagan. Bowering completed his education a the University of British Columbia, graduating with Bachelor of Arts (1960) and Master of Arts (1963). He is the founding editor of Tish, a literary magazine.
He is a recipient of three Governor General's Awards for 1969, for Rocky Mountain Foot (McCelland and Stewart Company Limited, 1968), The Gangs of Kosmos (House of Anansi Press, 1969), and Burning Water: A Novel (General Publishing, 1980). In 2002, Bowering was named Canada's first Poet Laureate. He received the British Columbia's Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence in 2011.
George, Vancouver depicts George Vancouver's expedition and voyage of discovery on the northwestern Pacific Coast, which took place between 1791 and 1795. Vancouver (1757– 1798) was an officer of the Royal Navy.
He is a recipient of three Governor General's Awards for 1969, for Rocky Mountain Foot (McCelland and Stewart Company Limited, 1968), The Gangs of Kosmos (House of Anansi Press, 1969), and Burning Water: A Novel (General Publishing, 1980). In 2002, Bowering was named Canada's first Poet Laureate. He received the British Columbia's Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence in 2011.
George, Vancouver depicts George Vancouver's expedition and voyage of discovery on the northwestern Pacific Coast, which took place between 1791 and 1795. Vancouver (1757– 1798) was an officer of the Royal Navy.
Creator
Bowering, George, 1935–
Source
Canadiana
Publisher
Weed/Flower Press
Date
1970
Identifier
PR6052 .O86 G45
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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Leacock, Stephen, 1869–1944
Bell & Cockburn, 1912
Title
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Description
Stephen Butler Leacock (1869–1944) was a novelist, teacher, academic, and biographer. He was educated at the Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1891. Combining humour and understatement with wit and exaggeration to achieve his distinctive style, Leacock was the most popular humourist writer in English from 1910 to 1925.
Literary Lapses: A Book of Sketches (Gazette Printing Company, 1910), Nonsense Novels (Musson Book Company, 1911) and Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich (S.B. Gundy, 1915) are Leacock's major works. Leacock also produced scholarly publications in literature, political science, history, and economics, and was a lecturer. Humour: Its Theory and Technique, With Examples and Samples (J. Lane the Bodley Head, 1935), and My Discovery of the West: A Discussion of East and West in Canada (Hale, Cushman and Flint, 1937) are his most significant academic books.
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a humourous and ironic portrait of life in Mariposa, a small Canadian town, depicted in a series of interrelated sketches, featuring the same locale and characters. The novel is a satire of provincialism and pettiness of the inhabitants of the town. It is also reflective of Leacock's conservative stance.
Literary Lapses: A Book of Sketches (Gazette Printing Company, 1910), Nonsense Novels (Musson Book Company, 1911) and Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich (S.B. Gundy, 1915) are Leacock's major works. Leacock also produced scholarly publications in literature, political science, history, and economics, and was a lecturer. Humour: Its Theory and Technique, With Examples and Samples (J. Lane the Bodley Head, 1935), and My Discovery of the West: A Discussion of East and West in Canada (Hale, Cushman and Flint, 1937) are his most significant academic books.
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a humourous and ironic portrait of life in Mariposa, a small Canadian town, depicted in a series of interrelated sketches, featuring the same locale and characters. The novel is a satire of provincialism and pettiness of the inhabitants of the town. It is also reflective of Leacock's conservative stance.
Creator
Leacock, Stephen, 1869–1944
Source
Canadiana
Publisher
Bell & Cockburn
Date
1912
Contributor
Macdonald, Grant, 1909– illustrator
Rights
Public domain
Identifier
PR6023 .E15 S8 1912
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Think of the Earth
Brooker, Bertram, 1888–1955
Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1936
Title
Think of the Earth
Description
Bertram Richard Brooker (1888–1955) was an artist, novelist, poet, journalist, critic, and advertising executive. He was born in Croydon, England and settled in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, in 1905.
Brooker was the first Canadian artist to exhibit abstracts and and his preferred media were oil, watercolour, pencil, ink and print. His early paintings include Sounds Assembling (1928) and Alleluiah (1929).
Yearbook of the Arts in Canada, a review of art, poetry, drama and literature was a project originated and edited by Brooker. The first volume was published in 1929, and the second appeared in 1936.
Think of the Earth was awarded the first Governor General's Award. It is set in Poplar Plains, a fictional prairie town based on Portage la Prairie. A scholarly edition, with explanatory notes and a bibliography, was published in 2000 by Brown Bear.
Brooker was the first Canadian artist to exhibit abstracts and and his preferred media were oil, watercolour, pencil, ink and print. His early paintings include Sounds Assembling (1928) and Alleluiah (1929).
Yearbook of the Arts in Canada, a review of art, poetry, drama and literature was a project originated and edited by Brooker. The first volume was published in 1929, and the second appeared in 1936.
Think of the Earth was awarded the first Governor General's Award. It is set in Poplar Plains, a fictional prairie town based on Portage la Prairie. A scholarly edition, with explanatory notes and a bibliography, was published in 2000 by Brown Bear.
Creator
Brooker, Bertram, 1888–1955
Source
Canadiana
Publisher
Thomas Nelson & Sons
Date
1936
Relation
Public domain
Identifier
PR9199.3 .B72 T54 1936
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As for Me and My House: A Novel
Ross, Sinclair
Reynal and Hitchcock, 1941
Title
As for Me and My House: A Novel
Description
The desolate landscape of Horizon, a fictional prairie town in Saskatchewan, is a metaphor for the bereft state of life, marriage, and spirituality of Mrs. Bentley and her husband, Reverend Philip Bentley, an unfulfilled artist, as depicted in the pages of her diary.
As for Me and My House, a critically acclaimed novel, was the first fictional work written by James Sinclair Ross (1908–1996). An accomplished novelist and short story writer, many of his publications describe the life on the prairies.
As for Me and My House, a critically acclaimed novel, was the first fictional work written by James Sinclair Ross (1908–1996). An accomplished novelist and short story writer, many of his publications describe the life on the prairies.
Creator
Ross, Sinclair
Source
Canadiana
Publisher
Reynal and Hitchcock
Date
1941
Identifier
PR9199.3 .R599 A8 1941
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Two Solitudes
MacLennan, Hugh, 1907–1990
Collins, 1945
Title
Two Solitudes
Description
Hugh MacLennan (1907–1990) was a novelist, academic, and contributor Holiday, Saturday Review, Maclean's and other periodicals.
MacLennan proclaimed that Canada lacked a body of national literature and creative writing free from the vestiges of the colonial identity and the cultural influence of the United States.
MacLennan wrote that "[t]he academic and and highly educated person particularly connected with literature was in a curiously colonial position for many years here." MacLennan set out to write a "quintessential" Canadian novel, materialized in 1941 as Barometer Raising, a story centred around the Halifax Explosion. The “fictional nationalism” of the novel is evident in his other literary endeavours.
Two Solitudes depicts the cultural, religious, and linguistic schism between English and French Canada. The novel received Governor General's Award in 1947 and was adapted into a film in 1978.
MacLennan proclaimed that Canada lacked a body of national literature and creative writing free from the vestiges of the colonial identity and the cultural influence of the United States.
MacLennan wrote that "[t]he academic and and highly educated person particularly connected with literature was in a curiously colonial position for many years here." MacLennan set out to write a "quintessential" Canadian novel, materialized in 1941 as Barometer Raising, a story centred around the Halifax Explosion. The “fictional nationalism” of the novel is evident in his other literary endeavours.
Two Solitudes depicts the cultural, religious, and linguistic schism between English and French Canada. The novel received Governor General's Award in 1947 and was adapted into a film in 1978.
Creator
MacLennan, Hugh, 1907–1990
Source
Canadiana
Publisher
Collins
Date
1945
Contributor
Lofgren, Lisbeth, artist
Identifier
PR9199.3 .M23 T86 1945
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Who Has Seen the Wind
Mitchell, W. O. (William Ormond), 1914–1998
Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1947
Title
Who Has Seen the Wind
Description
William Ormond Mitchell (1914–1998) was a novelist, playwright, and teacher. His short stories appeared in Maclean's, Canadian Forum, and Atlantic Monthly. In addition to teaching, Mitchell worked as a freelance writer, fiction editor at Maclean's, and until his retirement in 1986, as director of creative writing at Banff School of Fine Arts. His scripts also appeared in CBC radio and television productions.
Who Has Seen the Wind (Macmillan Company of Canada, 1947) was Mitchell's first novel. Selling half a million copies, it was a critical and commercial success upon publication. Partly autobiographical, the novel recounts childhood experiences of Brian Sean MacMurray O'Connal, growing up in a small prairie town.
Ellen Elliott, secretary and director of Macmillan between 1937 and 1947, encouraged Mitchell to send her the complete manuscript, published it in 1947. The book is recognized as a Canadian literary classic.
Who Has Seen the Wind (Macmillan Company of Canada, 1947) was Mitchell's first novel. Selling half a million copies, it was a critical and commercial success upon publication. Partly autobiographical, the novel recounts childhood experiences of Brian Sean MacMurray O'Connal, growing up in a small prairie town.
Ellen Elliott, secretary and director of Macmillan between 1937 and 1947, encouraged Mitchell to send her the complete manuscript, published it in 1947. The book is recognized as a Canadian literary classic.
Creator
Mitchell, W. O. (William Ormond), 1914–1998
Source
Canadiana
Publisher
Macmillan Company of Canada Limited
Date
1947
Contributor
Easton, William G., 1879-1949, artist
Identifier
PR9199.3 .M54 W4
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In Search of Myself
Grove, Frederick Philip, 1879–1948
Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1946
Title
In Search of Myself
Description
Frederick Philip Grove (1879–1948) was a novelist, editor, and farmer, best known for the naturalistic, solemn style of writing depicting pioneer life on the Canadian prairies. He also composed short stories, three poems (published in Canadian Forum), autobiographical essays, and articles on literature and education.
A series of four prairie novels are considered to be the most successful: Settlers of the Marsh (Ryerson Press, 1925), Our Daily Bread (Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1928), The Yoke of Life (Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1930), and Fruits of the Earth (J. M. Dent and Sons, 1933).
In Search of Myself (Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1946) is Grove's autobiography. Partly fictional, Desmond Pacey concluded that it "is in many ways a painful book, but it will survive as a record of unusual but credible personal adventures, as a document shedding light upon the development of North American society, as a detailed and convincing account of the special difficulties, which beset the artist in a pioneer community."
A series of four prairie novels are considered to be the most successful: Settlers of the Marsh (Ryerson Press, 1925), Our Daily Bread (Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1928), The Yoke of Life (Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1930), and Fruits of the Earth (J. M. Dent and Sons, 1933).
In Search of Myself (Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1946) is Grove's autobiography. Partly fictional, Desmond Pacey concluded that it "is in many ways a painful book, but it will survive as a record of unusual but credible personal adventures, as a document shedding light upon the development of North American society, as a detailed and convincing account of the special difficulties, which beset the artist in a pioneer community."
Creator
Grove, Frederick Philip, 1879–1948
Source
Canadiana
Publisher
Macmillan Company of Canada Limited
Date
1946
Identifier
PR9199.3 .G77 Z47
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Cabbagetown
Garner, Hugh, 1913–1979
Collins, 1950
Title
Cabbagetown
Description
Hugh Garner (1913–1979) was a novelist and short story writer. Born in Batley, England, Garner spent his childhood in marginalized innercity neighbourhoods, including Cabbagetown and Riverdale. His early experiences influenced his realistic writing, often depicting the hardships of working-class people.
Garner's extensive literary output resulted in the publication of seventeen books, one hundred short stories, and hundreds of articles, in addition to radio and television scripts. In 1963 Hugh Garner's Best Stories, a short story collection, was awarded the Governor General's Award.
Garner's autobiography One Damn Thing After Another (McGraw-Hill Ryerson) appeared in 1973 (McGraw–Hill Ryerson) and he was subject of a biography by Paul Stuewe, The Storms Below: The Turbulent Life and Times of Hugh Garner (James Lorimer, 1988).
Cabbagetown was published as a pulp novel with an abridged text in 1950 by William Collins as part of an inexpensive, mass-market paperback series, White Circle. The plot of the novel follows the life events of Ken Tilling as he comes of age during the Great Depression in poverty-stricken titular Cabbagetown, a neighbourhood in the east end of Toronto. The next edition of the novel appeared in 1968 (Ryerson Press) with full text as originally intended by Garner.
Garner's extensive literary output resulted in the publication of seventeen books, one hundred short stories, and hundreds of articles, in addition to radio and television scripts. In 1963 Hugh Garner's Best Stories, a short story collection, was awarded the Governor General's Award.
Garner's autobiography One Damn Thing After Another (McGraw-Hill Ryerson) appeared in 1973 (McGraw–Hill Ryerson) and he was subject of a biography by Paul Stuewe, The Storms Below: The Turbulent Life and Times of Hugh Garner (James Lorimer, 1988).
Cabbagetown was published as a pulp novel with an abridged text in 1950 by William Collins as part of an inexpensive, mass-market paperback series, White Circle. The plot of the novel follows the life events of Ken Tilling as he comes of age during the Great Depression in poverty-stricken titular Cabbagetown, a neighbourhood in the east end of Toronto. The next edition of the novel appeared in 1968 (Ryerson Press) with full text as originally intended by Garner.
Creator
Garner, Hugh, 1913–1979
Source
Canadiana
Publisher
Collins
Date
1950
Contributor
Smith, Murray, artist
Identifier
PR9199.3 .G353 C32 1950
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The Loved and the Lost: A Novel
Callaghan, Morley, 1903–1990
Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1951
Title
The Loved and the Lost: A Novel
Description
Morley Edward Callaghan (1903–1990) was a novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. He is recognized as one of the most distinguished authors in twentieth-century Canada and was the first Canadian writer to establish a significant international reputation. His career originated with the short stories he published in monthly magazines in New York and Paris, including This Quarter, Exile, and Scribner's.
In 1923, during his employment as a reporter for the Toronto Star, Callaghan befriended Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), who was working in the newsroom. Hemingway encouraged him to write, and Callaghan's short stories, published in Parisian magazines attracted the attention of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1897–1940). Fitzgerald used his connections in New York to help Callaghan publish his first novel, The Strange Fugitive (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928). In 1929 Callaghan and his wife, Loretto Florence Dee, spent seven months in Paris in the company of Hemingway, Fitzgerald and other poets and writers. That Summer in Paris, a memoir based on Callaghan's experiences appeared in 1963 (Macmillan Company of Canada Limited).
The Loved and the Lost is considered one of the most successful novels authored by Callaghan, detailing racial tensions in Montreal. The book received the Governor General's Literary Prize for Fiction in 1951.
In 1923, during his employment as a reporter for the Toronto Star, Callaghan befriended Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), who was working in the newsroom. Hemingway encouraged him to write, and Callaghan's short stories, published in Parisian magazines attracted the attention of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1897–1940). Fitzgerald used his connections in New York to help Callaghan publish his first novel, The Strange Fugitive (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928). In 1929 Callaghan and his wife, Loretto Florence Dee, spent seven months in Paris in the company of Hemingway, Fitzgerald and other poets and writers. That Summer in Paris, a memoir based on Callaghan's experiences appeared in 1963 (Macmillan Company of Canada Limited).
The Loved and the Lost is considered one of the most successful novels authored by Callaghan, detailing racial tensions in Montreal. The book received the Governor General's Literary Prize for Fiction in 1951.
Creator
Callaghan, Morley, 1903–1990
Source
Canadiana
Publisher
Macmillan Company of Canada Limited
Date
1951
Contributor
Manso, Leo, artist
Identifier
PR9199.3 .C27 L6
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The Eye of the Needle: Satires, Sorties, Sundries
Scott, F. R. (Francis Reginald), 1899–1985
Contact Press, 1957
Title
The Eye of the Needle: Satires, Sorties, Sundries
Description
Francis Reginald Scott (1899–1985) was a poet and professor of constitutional law. He attended Magdalen College, Oxford University, on the Rhodes Scholarship and studied law at McGill University. Scott was active in the socialist movement in Canada and was one of its founders, assisting in writing the Regina Manifesto of Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and Social Planning for Canada in 1935.
Scott was also an important figure in the emergence of Canada's intellectual and artistic life. In 1925, Scott and A.J.M. Smith established the McGill Fortnightly Review and served as the editor of the Canadian Forum.
Scott's poetry books include Overture (Ryerson Press, 1945), Events and Signals (Ryerson Press, 1954). He was also the translator of Poems of French Canada (Blackfish Press, 1977, winner of the Canada Council's translation prize), Essays on the Constitution (University of Toronto Press, 1977, recipient of the Governor General's Award) and Collected Poems (McClelland and Stewart Company Limited, 1981, also a winner of the Governor General's Award).
The Eye of the Needle was his third volume of poetry, characterized by a colloquial, conversational style
Scott was also an important figure in the emergence of Canada's intellectual and artistic life. In 1925, Scott and A.J.M. Smith established the McGill Fortnightly Review and served as the editor of the Canadian Forum.
Scott's poetry books include Overture (Ryerson Press, 1945), Events and Signals (Ryerson Press, 1954). He was also the translator of Poems of French Canada (Blackfish Press, 1977, winner of the Canada Council's translation prize), Essays on the Constitution (University of Toronto Press, 1977, recipient of the Governor General's Award) and Collected Poems (McClelland and Stewart Company Limited, 1981, also a winner of the Governor General's Award).
The Eye of the Needle was his third volume of poetry, characterized by a colloquial, conversational style
Creator
Scott, F. R. (Francis Reginald), 1899–1985
Source
Canadiana
Publisher
Contact Press
Date
1957
Identifier
PR6037 .C915 E95
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Beautiful Losers
Cohen, Leonard, 1934–2016
McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1966
Title
Beautiful Losers
Description
Leonard Norman Cohen (1934–2016) was a poet, novelist, singer, and songwriter.
Beautiful Losers is recognized as a significant contribution to literary Canadian postmodernism, but the novel received mixed reviews upon publication in 1966 due to the sexual nature of the subject matter.
The copy includes annotations by Northrop Frye.
Beautiful Losers is recognized as a significant contribution to literary Canadian postmodernism, but the novel received mixed reviews upon publication in 1966 due to the sexual nature of the subject matter.
The copy includes annotations by Northrop Frye.
Creator
Cohen, Leonard, 1934–2016
Source
Northrop Frye
Publisher
McClelland and Stewart Limited
Date
1966
Subject
Canadian poetry
Identifier
Frye annotated no.70
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Eros at Breakfast, And Other Plays
Davies, Robertson, 1913–1995
Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1949
Title
Eros at Breakfast, And Other Plays
Description
William Robertson Davies (1913–1995) was a playwright, novelist, newspaper editor, columnist, critic, and professor. He he attended Upper Canada College, Queen's University, and Balliol College, Oxford University. In 1938, Davis joined the Old Vic Company, working various posts: as an assistant stage manager, actor, research assistant, and teacher of theater history.
Following his return to Canada, he was appointed as a literary editor to Saturday Night and continued his career as an editor of the Examiner, a newspaper in Peterborough, Ontario. The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (Clarke, Irwin and Company, 1947, revised, 1966), is a selection of columns published in the Examiner and other Canadian newspapers between 1943 and 1953 and authored by Davies's alter ego, Samuel Marchbanks, comically critical of various aspects of Canadian culture.
Davis was also active in theatre, writing and producing plays: Overlaid: A Comedy (French, 1948), The Voice of the People (Simon and Pierre, 1994), At the Gates of the Righteous (1948), Hope Deferred (1948), Fortune, My Foe (1948), and many others.
Davies served as Master, Massey College, between 1961 and 1981.
Eros at Breakfast was staged by the Ottawa Drama League in 1948. It is an one-act play and was awarded he Gratien Gélinas Prize for the best Canadian play at the Dominion Drama Festival in the same year.
Following his return to Canada, he was appointed as a literary editor to Saturday Night and continued his career as an editor of the Examiner, a newspaper in Peterborough, Ontario. The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (Clarke, Irwin and Company, 1947, revised, 1966), is a selection of columns published in the Examiner and other Canadian newspapers between 1943 and 1953 and authored by Davies's alter ego, Samuel Marchbanks, comically critical of various aspects of Canadian culture.
Davis was also active in theatre, writing and producing plays: Overlaid: A Comedy (French, 1948), The Voice of the People (Simon and Pierre, 1994), At the Gates of the Righteous (1948), Hope Deferred (1948), Fortune, My Foe (1948), and many others.
Davies served as Master, Massey College, between 1961 and 1981.
Eros at Breakfast was staged by the Ottawa Drama League in 1948. It is an one-act play and was awarded he Gratien Gélinas Prize for the best Canadian play at the Dominion Drama Festival in the same year.
Creator
Davies, Robertson, 1913–1995
Source
Canadiana
Publisher
Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited
Date
1949
Contributor
Guthrie, Tyrone, 1900–1971
Identifier
PR6007 .A814 E7 1949
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The Killdeer: And Other Plays
Reaney, James
Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1962
Title
The Killdeer: And Other Plays
Description
James Crerar Reaney (1926–2008) was a poet, dramatist, critic and professor. He attended University of Toronto, where he received Bachelor of Arts in 1948 and Master of Arts degrees in 1949. His postgraduate work was supervised by Northrop Frye.
The Red Heart (McClelland and Stewart Company Limited), a collection of forty-two verses composed between 1944 and 1949 won the Governor General's Award in 1949. He also received the award for A Suit of Nettles (Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1958), among other honours.
His essays were published in Canadian Literature, Canadian Theatre Review, Theatre History in Canada, and Black Moss.
The Killdeer is a collection play, comprising The Killdeer, The Sun and the Moon, and One-man Masque and was the recipient the Governor General's Award in 1963.
The Killdeer was produced at the Coach House Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, on January 13, 1960. A revised version appeared 5 August 1970 at Stage Campus '70 in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Sun and the Moon was staged at Oasis Restaurant Theatre, London, Ontario, on August 3, 1965.
The Red Heart (McClelland and Stewart Company Limited), a collection of forty-two verses composed between 1944 and 1949 won the Governor General's Award in 1949. He also received the award for A Suit of Nettles (Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1958), among other honours.
His essays were published in Canadian Literature, Canadian Theatre Review, Theatre History in Canada, and Black Moss.
The Killdeer is a collection play, comprising The Killdeer, The Sun and the Moon, and One-man Masque and was the recipient the Governor General's Award in 1963.
The Killdeer was produced at the Coach House Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, on January 13, 1960. A revised version appeared 5 August 1970 at Stage Campus '70 in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Sun and the Moon was staged at Oasis Restaurant Theatre, London, Ontario, on August 3, 1965.
Creator
Reaney, James
Source
Canadiana
Publisher
Macmillan Company of Canada Limited
Date
1962
Subject
Canadian drama—20th century
Identifier
PR6035 .E247 K5
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Dreamgirls: A Play
Rapoport, Janis, 1946–
Playwrights Canada, 1979
Title
Dreamgirls: A Play
Description
Janis Rapoport (1946-) is a poet, playwright, writer of non-fiction, educator and editor. She was born in Toronto. Rapoport received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from the University of Toronto in 1967.
She has been Associate Editor of Tamarack Review (1970–82), Editor of Ethos (1983–1986), Playwright-in-Residence (1974–1975), and Writer-in-Residence at several Ontario libraries (1987–1991). She has also worked as a literary and television editor, and as an instructor at the University of Toronto.
Rapoport has been a member of the League of Canadian Poets, the Writers’ Union of Canada, the Playwrights’ Union of Canada, the Writers’ Guild of Canada, and PEN International and is currently a member of the Playwrights' Guild of Canada (formerly the Playwrights' Union of Canada) and the Writers' Guild of Canada.
She has received numerous awards including the New York Art Directors Club Award of Merit in 1983, the American Institute of Graphic Arts Certificate of Excellence in 1983, the American Poetry Association Award in 1986, a Canada Council Arts Award in 1991, a Toronto Arts Council Award in 1990 and 1992, and an Ontario Arts Council Work-in-Progress Grant in 1995.
Dreamgirls was first produced in 1979 by Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto. The play is situated in a halfway house, where homeless women from various background live with their children, form friendships and mutual support.
She has been Associate Editor of Tamarack Review (1970–82), Editor of Ethos (1983–1986), Playwright-in-Residence (1974–1975), and Writer-in-Residence at several Ontario libraries (1987–1991). She has also worked as a literary and television editor, and as an instructor at the University of Toronto.
Rapoport has been a member of the League of Canadian Poets, the Writers’ Union of Canada, the Playwrights’ Union of Canada, the Writers’ Guild of Canada, and PEN International and is currently a member of the Playwrights' Guild of Canada (formerly the Playwrights' Union of Canada) and the Writers' Guild of Canada.
She has received numerous awards including the New York Art Directors Club Award of Merit in 1983, the American Institute of Graphic Arts Certificate of Excellence in 1983, the American Poetry Association Award in 1986, a Canada Council Arts Award in 1991, a Toronto Arts Council Award in 1990 and 1992, and an Ontario Arts Council Work-in-Progress Grant in 1995.
Dreamgirls was first produced in 1979 by Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto. The play is situated in a halfway house, where homeless women from various background live with their children, form friendships and mutual support.
Creator
Rapoport, Janis, 1946–
Source
Canadiana Large
Publisher
Playwrights Canada
Date
1979
Identifier
PR6068 .A767 D74
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