The Gay[Grey Moose: Essays on the Ecologies and Mythologies of Canadian Poetry 1690-1990University of Ottawa Press, 1 jan 1992 - 340 pagina's The Gay]Grey Moose is a collection of essays presenting a comprehensive view of English poetry in Canada from the early colonial period to the Post-Modern era. From a wide range of poets, this book provides fresh contexts for viewing and discussing three centuries of English Canadian poetry. Both national and regional in its orientation, it seeks to discover the relationship between poetry and landscape in a poetic continuity that stretches from the late 17th century to the present. |
Inhoudsopgave
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Lawabiding and Lawresisting Baseland and hinterland tendencies in Canadian poetry | 77 |
A Grey Inventory Early long poems on Canada | 117 |
Calibanned The native peoples in early Canadian poetry | 143 |
Of Roses and Rivers and Rattlesnakes and Songless Birds and Trains Towards an ecoanalysis of Canadian poetry | 163 |
The Poem in Its Niche Lampmans The City of the End of Things and its origins | 187 |
Let the Blank Whiteness of the Page Be Snow The paysagepage in preconcrete Canadian poetry | 201 |
Large Stature and Larger Soul The herculean hero and narrative in Canada | 217 |
Passion for Woods and Wild Life Pan and the poets of the Confederation | 235 |
The nth Adam Modernism and the transcendence of Canada | 251 |
AMENDMENT | 273 |
Notes | 289 |
Index | 319 |
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