The Last Canadian Poet : : An Essay on Al Purdy / / Sam Solecki.
In The Last Canadian Poet Sam Solecki offers the first book-length study of the entire body of work of Al Purdy. The book grew out of Solecki's work as editor of The Canadian Forum (1979-82), and his growing sense that, despite being one of Canada's major poets, Purdy has been ignored by c...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- I. Poetry, Nation, and the Last Canadian Poet
- II. The Poetry of Al Purdy
- 1. Bliss Carman's Shadow
- 2. D.H. Lawrence in North America
- 3. The Limits of Lyric
- 4. Poetry and the Poet
- 5. Starting from Ameliasburg: Old Rid, Owen Roblin, and Al
- 6. History and Nation
- 7. Origins and Being
- 8. Conclusion: The Future of the Past
- APPENDIX. Annotating the Poems of Al Purdy: Quotation, Allusion, Echo, and (Some) References
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index