The Poems of Archibald Lampman / / Archibald Lampman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Lampman, Archibald,
• TeilnehmendeR: Whitridge, Margaret.
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©1974
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (584 p.)

In the period between 1880 and 1900, Archibald Lampman made an impressive contribution to the development of a distinctive indentity in Canadian literature. Although he is remembered chiefly as a nature poet of regional interest, his interest for us today lines in this unexpected modernism and the intensity with which he interpreted nature and city scenes. In his later poems social criticism and a melancholic mood supersede his earlier idealism, dreams, and thematic preoccupation with nature. This volume includes The Poems of Archibald Lampman, a collection of 237 opems edited with a memoir by Duncan Campbell Scott after Lampman's death, and At the Long Sault and Other New Poems, which was hailed, when it first appeared in 1943, as 'the literary discovery of the year.' In Arthur Stringer's estimate, Lampman was the 'uncrowned poet laureate of Canada,' a comment that reflects the high esteem in which he was held. 'At the Long Sault,' according to some critics, signifies a new direction in Lampman's poetry: his concern with man's isolation and alienation from society. In this poem his breaks away from the ballad and sonnet forms which were his forte, and experiments with blank verse, the culmination of his poetic development. On the whole, his work manifests a tension arising from an uneasy balance of opposites -- fear and resignation, delight and the pain of losee, heat and cold, and life and death. Margaret Whitridge suggests that he was the first to strike an authentic note of fear in Canadian literature, in his poems about politicians and money-lenders, towering impersonal city buildings, and solitary figures prowling the city at night. This tension also reflects the difficulties he experienced in his personal life -- the failure of his marriage, the heart condition that condemned him to an early death, and the frustrations of being a socialist.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Introduction -- NOTES -- Bibliographical Note -- Select Bibliography -- CONTENTS -- MEMOIR -- AMONG THE MILLET -- AMONG THE MILLET -- APRIL -- AN OCTOBER SUNSET -- THE FROGS -- AN IMPRESSION. SPRING ON THE RIVER -- WHY DO YE CALL THE POET LONELY -- HEAT -- AMONG THE TIMOTHY -- FREEDOM -- MORNING ON THE LIEVRE -- IN OCTOBER -- LAMENT OF THE WINDS -- BALLADE OF SUMMER'S SLEEP -- WINTER -- WINTER HUES RECALLED -- STORM -- MIDNIGHT -- SONG OF THE STREAM-DROPS -- BETWEEN THE RAPIDS -- NEW YEAR'S EVE -- UNREST. SONG -- ONE DAY -- SLEEP -- THREE FLOWER PETALS -- PASSION -- A BALLADE OF WAITING -- BEFORE SLEEP -- A SONG -- WHAT DO POETS WANT WITH GOLD? -- THE KING'S SABBATH -- THE LITTLE HANDMAIDEN -- ABU MIDJAN -- THE WEAVER -- THE THREE PILGRIMS -- THE COMING OF WINTER -- EASTER EVE -- THE ORGANIST -- THE MONK -- THE CHILD'S MUSIC LESSON -- AN ATHENIAN REVERIE -- LOVE-DOUBT -- PERFECT LOVE -- LOVE-WONDER. COMFORT -- DESPONDENCY. OUTLOOK -- GENTLENESS -- A PRAYER. MUSIC -- KNOWLEDGE. SIGHT -- AN OLD LESSON FROM THE FIELDS -- WINTER-THOUGHT. DEEDS -- ASPIRATION. THE POETS -- THE TRUTH -- THE MARTYRS. A NIGHT OF STORM -- THE RAILWAY STATION. A FORECAST -- IN NOVEMBER -- THE CITY. MIDSUMMER NIGHT -- THE LOONS. MARCH -- SOLITUDE. AUTUMN MAPLES -- THE DOG -- LYRICS OF EARTH -- THE SWEETNESS OF LIFE -- GODSPEED TO THE SNOW -- APRIL IN THE HILLS -- FOREST MOODS. THE RETURN OF THE YEAR -- FAVORITES OF PAN -- THE MEADOW -- IN MAY -- LIFE AND NATURE -- WITH THE NIGHT -- JUNE -- DISTANCE. THE BIRD AND THE HOUR -- AFTER RAIN -- CLOUD-BREAK -- THE MOON-PATH -- COMFORT OF THE FIELDS -- AT THE FERRY -- SEPTEMBER -- A RE-ASSURANCE -- THE POET'S POSSESSION. AN AUTUMN LANDSCAPE -- IN NOVEMBER -- BY AN AUTUMN STREAM -- SNOWBIRDS. SNOW -- SUNSET -- WINTER-STORE -- THE SUN CUP -- ALCYONE -- ALCYONE -- IN MARCH. THE CITY OF THE END OF THINGS -- THE SONG SPARROW -- INTER VIAS -- REFUGE -- APRIL NIGHT. PERSONALITY -- TO MY DAUGHTER -- CHIONE -- TO THE CRICKET. THE SONG OF PAN -- THE ISLET AND THE PALM -- A VISION OF TWILIGHT -- EVENING -- THE CLEARER SELF -- TO THE PROPHETIC SOUL -- THE LAND OF PALLAS -- AMONG THE ORCHARDS. THE POET'S SONG -- A THUNDERSTORM -- THE CITY -- SAPPHICS -- VOICES OF EARTH -- PECCAVI, DOMINE -- AN ODE TO THE HILLS -- INDIAN SUMMER -- GOOD SPEECH. THE BETTER DAY -- WHITE PANSIES -- WE TOO SHALL SLEEP. THE AUTUMN WASTE -- VIVIA PERPETUA -- THE MYSTERY OF A YEAR -- WINTER EVENING. WAR -- THE WOODCUTTER'S HUT -- AMOR VITÆ -- WINTER-BREAK -- SONNETS -- AN INVOCATION. A MORNING SUMMONS -- NESTING TIME -- APRIL VOICES -- BEAUTY. ON THE COMPANIONSHIP WITH NATURE -- IN THE CITY -- MUSIC. THE PIANO -- MAY. EUPHRONE -- ACROSS THE PEA-FIELDS -- NIGHT. SALVATION -- AFTER THE SHOWER. IN ABSENCE -- TO THE WARBLING VIREO -- THE PASSING OF THE SPIRIT. XENOPHANES -- IN THE PINE GROVES -- SIRIUS -- AT DUSK. DEAD CITIES -- A MIDNIGHT LANDSCAPE -- TO CHAUCER -- BY THE SEA. A NIAGARA LANDSCAPE -- THE PILOT. A SUNSET AT LES EBOULEMENTS -- THAMYRIS -- THE DEATH OF TENNYSON -- STORM VOICES. TO A MILLIONAIRE -- THE MODERN POLITICIAN. VIRTUE -- FALLING ASLEEP -- PASSION. THE RUIN OF THE YEAR -- THE CUP OF LIFE. THE MARCH OF WINTER -- SORROW -- LOVE. TO DEATH -- THE VAIN FIGHT. EARTH-THE STOIC -- STOIC AND HEDONIST -- AVARICE. TO AN ULTRA PROTESTANT -- A JANUARY MORNING. A FOREST PATH IN WINTER -- AFTER MIST -- DEATH. IN BEECHWOOD CEMETERY -- BEFORE THE ROBIN. A MARCH DAY -- UPLIFTING. A DAWN ON THE LIEVRE -- A WINTER-DAWN -- GOLDENROD. TEMAGAMI -- ON LAKE TEMISCAMINGUE -- NIGHT IN THE WILDERNESS. IN THE WILDS -- AMBITION. THE WINTER STARS -- THE PASSING OF SPRING -- TO THE OTTAWA. TO THE OTTWA WA RIVER -- A SUMMER EVENING. WAYAGAMACK -- WINTER UPLANDS -- THE LARGEST LIFE -- POEMS AND BALLADS -- THE MINSTREL -- YARROW -- TO A FLOWER. SORROW -- PATERNITY. PEACE -- STRIFE AND FREEDOM. THE PASSING OF AUTUMN -- THE LAKE IN THE FOREST -- DROUGHT -- AFTER SNOW -- THE WIND'S WORD -- BIRD VOICES. HEPATICAS. THE OLD HOUSE -- KING OSWALD'S FEAST -- SOSTRATUS -- PHOKAIA -- THE VASE OF IBN MOKBIL -- BAKI -- A SPANISH TAUNT -- THE VIOLINIST -- INGVI AND ALF -- DAVID AND ABIGAIL -- THE STORY OF AN AFFINITY