Selected Poetry and Critical Prose Charles G.D. Roberts / / ed. by William Keith, Douglas Lochhead.

Charles G.D. Roberts (1860-1943) was one of Canada's most productive writers. In a literary career that extend over six and a half decades he published some three hundred and fifty poems, over two hundred short stories, nine full-length novels, six other books (including travel guides, historie...

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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, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • POETRY
  • Orion and Other Poems
  • Orion
  • Epistle to W. Bliss Carman
  • Dedication
  • In Divers Tones
  • Canada
  • Actiæon
  • In the Afternoon
  • The Pipes of Pan
  • To Fredericton in May-Time
  • In September
  • A Serenade
  • Rain
  • The Tantramar Revisited
  • On the Creek
  • The Sower
  • The Potato Harvest
  • Tides
  • Consolation
  • The Footpath
  • Liberty (From the French of Louis Honore Frechette)
  • Birch and Paddle (To Bliss Carman)
  • An Ode for the Canadian Confederacy
  • The Quelling of the Moose (A Melicite Legend)
  • The Departing of Clote Scarp
  • The Poet is Bidden to Manhattan Island
  • Ave: An Ode for the Centenary of the Birth of Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Ave
  • Songs of the Common Day
  • Prologue
  • The Furrow
  • The Waking Earth
  • The Cow Pasture
  • When Milking-Time is Done
  • Frogs
  • The Salt Flats
  • The Pea-Fields
  • The Mowing
  • Burnt Lands
  • The Clearing
  • Buckwheat
  • The Oat-Threshing
  • The Autumn Thistles
  • The Pumpkins in the Corn
  • The Winter Fields
  • In an Old Barn
  • Midwinter Thaw
  • The Flight of the Geese
  • In the Wide Awe and Wisdom of the Night
  • The Herring Weir
  • Blomidon
  • O Solitary of the Austere Sky
  • Marsyas
  • Severance
  • Epitaph for a Sailor Buried Ashore
  • The Silver Thaw
  • The Lily of the Valley
  • The Wild-Rose Thicket
  • Grey Rocks and Greyer Sea
  • New Year's Eve (After the French of Frechette)
  • How the Mohawks Set Out for Medoctec
  • The Wood Frolic
  • The Book of the Native
  • Where the Cattle Come to Drink
  • An Epitaph for a Husbandman
  • The Stillness of the Frost
  • A Child's Prayer at Evening
  • The Frosted Pane
  • The Brook in February
  • Beside the Winter Sea
  • The Trout Brook
  • Butterflies
  • An August Wood-Road
  • The Lone Wharf
  • Twilight on Sixth Avenue
  • New York Nocturnes and Other Poems
  • Presence
  • In a City Room
  • A Nocturne of Consecration
  • An Evening Communion
  • Beyond the Tops of Time
  • At Tide Water
  • The Falling Leaves
  • The Solitary Woodsman
  • Ice
  • Ascription
  • Poems
  • The Skater
  • On the Elevated Railroad at 110th Street
  • The Flocks of Spring
  • Brooklyn Bridge
  • At the Drinking Fountain
  • The Farmer's Winter Morning
  • In the Barn-Yard's Southerly Corner
  • The Logs
  • The Book of the Rose
  • The Fear of Love
  • The Native
  • Child of the Infinite
  • Lines for an Omar Punch-Bowl
  • The Aim
  • New Poems
  • 'The Unknown City'
  • O Earth, Sufficing All Our Needs
  • Monition
  • All Night the Lone Cicada
  • From the High Window of Your Room
  • The Hour of Most Desire
  • The Stream
  • Going Over
  • The Vagrant of Time
  • The Vagrant of Time
  • In the Night Watches
  • Hath Hope Kept Vigil
  • Epitaph
  • Spring Breaks in Foam
  • Philander's Song (From 'The Sprightly Pilgrim')
  • The Iceberg and Other Poems
  • The Iceberg
  • Taormina
  • Presences
  • The Squatter
  • Westcock Hill
  • Spirit of Beauty
  • Quebec, 1757 (From the French of Philippe Aubert de Gaspe)
  • To a Certain Mystic
  • Canada Speaks of Britain
  • Peace with Dishonour
  • Two Rivers
  • Twilight over Shaugamauk
  • Critical Prose
  • The Beginnings of a Canadian Literature
  • The Outlook for Literature: Acadia's Field for Poetry, History and Romance
  • Introduction to Poems of Wild Life
  • Wordsworth's Poetry
  • The Poetry of Nature
  • Shelley's Adonais
  • A Note on Modernism
  • From the Prefatory Note to Selected Poems
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Poems