The St Lawrence and the Saguenay and Other Poems : : Hesperus and Other Poems and Lyrics / / Charles Sangster; ed. by Gordon Johnston.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Sangster, Charles ,
• HerausgeberIn: Johnston, Gordon,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1972
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (498 p.)

Once called 'The Father of Canadian Poetry,' Charles Sangster was much praised by his contemporaries. His two major works, The St Lawrence and the Sagunay and Other Poems (1856) and Hesperus and Other Poems and Lyrics (1860), received favourable reviews in England and the United States as well as home. Charles Sangster's poetry reflects the cultural atmosphere of Canada West in the middle of the nineteenth century. As Gordon Johnston points out, Sangster was the first to look poetically at the Canadian wilderness; and although the poet sees it as God's creation, he also recognizes its dangers and terrors. As poet Sangster also deals with his reasons for writing poetry and the problems of writing. The two volumes reprinted here in the complete text have long been out of print. They will be welcomed by many who wish to read this important nineteenth-century Canadian poet.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- CONTENTS -- CORRECTION -- THE ST. LAWRENCE AND THE SAGUENAY -- SPRING -- A POET'S LOVE -- LIGHT IN DARKNESS -- RIDEAU LAKE -- AURELIA -- SONNET -- EVENING SCENE -- GENTLE MARY ANN -- DEATH OF THE OLD YEAR -- DESPONDENCY -- THE VOICE OF GOD -- THE FINE OLD WOODS -- ELEGY -- MORNING IN SUMMER -- PASSWORD-" TRUTH IS MIGHTY." -- THE WHIRL WIND -- ELIZABETH'S BIRTH -- HENRY'S GRAVE -- SNOW DROPS -- PRETTY FACES -- BEYOND THE GRAVE -- CANADIAN SLEIGH SONG -- PITY'S TEAR DROP -- ANNIE BY MY SIDE A SITTING -- THE NAME OF MARY -- THE KNEELING HEART -- AUTUMN -- REMEMBRANCES -- LITTLE ANNIE -- SUN, MOON, AND STARS -- THE CHIEFTAIN'S LAST SIGH -- HOLY GROUND -- PLEASANT MEMORIES -- MY KITTEN -- THE FROST KING'S REVEL -- ENGLAND AND AMEP.ICA -- THE WRECK -- THE LOFTY AND THE LOWLY -- I DREAMED I MET THEE -- THE CHANGES OF A NIGHT -- TO REV. JAMES G. WITTED -- EDITH TO HAROLD -- SONG OF THE NEW YEAR -- PEACE, FOND SOUL -- MERRY CHRISTMAS -- A PLEA FOR THE WOODS -- LIITLE LIBBY -- THE YELLOW CURL -- LET THEM BOAST AS THEY WILL -- LIMERICK CATHEDRAL BELLS -- LOVE'S GUIDING STAR -- THE ANGEL'S GIFT -- LOVE'S SIGNET RING -- MARY'S TWENTIETH BIRTHDAY -- LOVE'S MORNING LARK -- SONG-THE BANNER OF OLD ENGLAND -- SONG-THE HEROES OF THE ALMA -- THE TWOFOLD VICTORY-AN ALMA LYRIC -- SONG OF THE BRITISH MARINER -- THE INDIAN SUMMER -- THE BETRAYAL -- THE IMPATIENT LOVER -- THE GRAPE -- A THOUSAND FACES -- THE PAST -- IMAGINATION -- THE SPIRIT OF THE WOODS -- LOVE'S NEW ERA -- FAITH -- FROM QUEENSTON HEIGHTS -- FANNY -- LAMENT OF SIDNGW AKONCE -- ABSENCE -- FESTUS -- SONNET -- HOPE -- THE TRIO -- THE ONE IDEA -- UN CURBED PASSION -- PEACE -- BERTRAM AND LORENZO -- INDEX OF TITLES -- FRONT MATTER 2 -- CONTENTS -- DEDICATORY POEM -- HESPERUS -- CROWNED -- MARILINE -- THE HAPPY HARVESTERS -- THE FALLS OF THE CHAUDIERE, OTTAWA -- A ROYAL WELCOME -- MALCOLM -- THE COMET-OCTOBER, 1858 -- AUTUMN -- COLIN -- MARGERY -- EVA -- THE POET'S RECOMPENSE -- THE WINE OF SONG -- THE PLAINS OF ABRAHAM -- DEATH OF WOLFE -- BROCK -- SONG FOR CANADA -- SONG.-I'D BE A FAIRY KING -- SONG.-LOVE WHILE YOU MAY -- THE SNOWS. UPPER OTTAWA -- THE RAPID. ST. LAWRENCE -- LOST AND FOUND -- YOUNG AGAIN -- GLIMPSES -- MY PRAYER -- HER STAR -- THE MYSTERY -- LOVE AND TRUTH -- THE WREN -- GRANDPERE -- ENGLAND'S HOPE AND ENGLAND'S HEIR -- ROSE -- THE DREAMER -- NIGHT AND MORNING -- WITHIN THINE EYES -- GERTRUDE -- FLOWERS -- THE UNATTAINABLE -- YEARNINGS -- INGRATITUDE -- TRUE LOVE -- AN EVENING THOUGHT -- A THOUGHT FOR SPRING -- THE SW ALLOWS -- SONG.-CLARA AND I -- THE APRIL SNOW-STORM.-1858 -- GOOD NIGHT -- HOPELESS -- INTO THE SILENT LAND -- SONNETS -- OPINIONS OF THE PRESS -- Index of Titles -- Select Bibliography