New Provinces : : Poems of Several Authors / / ed. by Douglas Lochhead.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• TeilnehmendeR: Gnarkowski, Michael.
• HerausgeberIn: Lochhead, Douglas,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1975
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (120 p.)

When New Provinces first appeared in 1936, it represented four years of planning, argument, and compromise, and an additional two and a half years of correspondence and editorial preparation. This prolonged effort was brought to a successful end with the publication of a slim collection of verse, the work of six writers, Robert Finch, Leo Kennedy, A.M. Klein, E.J. Pratt, F.R. Scott, and A.J.M. Smith. At the time it was published it received little critical attention and had even less popular appeal; after nearly a year the book had sold only 82 copies, 10 of them to one of the contributors. Only E.K. Brown, writing for University of Toronto Quarterly in 1937, seemed to realize that New Provinces 'marked the emergence . of a group of poets who may well have a vivifying effect on Canadian poetry.' Since that time this small volume has been recognized as a monument in Canadian literature, a singular event in a literary process which stemmed from the origins of Canadian modernism and its beginnings in Montreal, marking the first collective effort to introduce poets who came to represent the new establishment. Michael Gnarowski's introduction tells the fascinating story of the genesis of the idea for the book and the difficulties that were encountered.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- A Rejected Preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Robert Finch -- The Five Kine -- Egg-and-Dart -- Beauty My Fond Fine Care -- Window-Piece -- The Hero -- The Hunt -- Teacher -- Become that Village -- The Hammers -- From a Hammock -- The Excursionists -- Leo Kennedy -- Epithalamium -- Mole Talk -- Prophecy for Icarus -- Shore -- Letter to Girls -- Delicate Clay -- Words for a Resurrection -- Epithalamium before Frost -- A Bright Swan for my Daughter -- Testament -- A. M. Klein -- Out of the Pulver and the Polished Lens -- Soirée of Velvel Kleinberger -- E. J. Pratt -- The Prize Winner -- Text of the Oath -- The Convict Holocaust -- From Java to Geneva -- The Man and the Machine -- Seen on the Road -- The Drag-Irons -- Sea-Gulls -- F. R. Scott -- Trees In Ice -- March Field -- Surfaces -- Calvary -- The Canadian Authors Meet -- Teleological -- Vagrant -- Summer Camp -- Efficiency -- Overture -- A. J. M. Smith -- Shadows there Are -- Like an Old Proud King in a Parable -- In the Wilderness -- The Two Sides of a Drum -- Prothalamium -- Epitaph -- The Creek -- The Lonely Land -- To a Young Poet -- A Soldier's Ghost -- News of the Phoenix -- The Offices of the First and the Second Hour