Poems and Essays / / Joseph Howe.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Howe, Joseph,
• TeilnehmendeR: Parks, M.G.
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1973
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)

This volume, containing a selection of the poetry and prose of Joseph Howe, presents various aspects of a fascinating man who few Canadian know as other than the 'tribune of Nova Scotia' and a political giant of colonial times. Yet Howe was also a writer, and a good one. His intuitive grasp and pragmatic skill in political affairs were combined with wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, strong moral idealism, and a lively imagination. He revealed a vigorous strength in journalism and politics, in public life in general, and in his prose. His poetry admittedly was minor and colonial — he cultivated eighteenth-century verse models and habits of diction, which made him a second-generation Romantic in attitude and tone rather than in style — and its merit, according to David Munroe, Dalhousie Review, XX, 1941, 'lies principally in the deep sincerity which is characteristic of all good verse.' However, to understand the man and his times it is essential to understand the full extent of his endeavours; hence the significance of this book. The selections in this volume were assembled after Howe's death by his ninth child, Sydenham. They include the unfinished poem 'Acadia,' various serious and sentimental poems, five essays originally written and delivered as speeches, and a moral tale entitled 'The Locksmith of Philadelphia.'

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Introduction -- Bibliographical Note -- Introduction -- Acadia -- Sable Island -- The Stewiacke -- Melville Island -- The Flag Of Old England -- Our Fathers -- Song For The 8th June -- The Streams -- Thanksgiving Hymn -- My Native Pines -- Fame -- La Tribune -- Home -- To The Queen -- Making Land -- The Rhine -- Coming Home -- Saturday Night At Sea -- The Stormy Petrel -- The Coaster -- The Song Of The Micmac -- The Wild Cherry Tree -- The Micmac -- My Father -- Glide Merrily On My Little Skiff -- To My Wife -- To My Sister Jane -- To Susan Ann -- Oh think not that my heart can e'er -- Nay, chide me not -- The Beach -- Tho' Time may steal the roseate blush -- Song -- The Birth Day -- The Wedding Day -- To Ellen -- A Love Song -- The Unseen Babe -- To Jane -- To Sophia -- To a Lady -- To M. J. K. -- To Mary -- To Ann -- Oh! It would more than transport be -- Lines written in an Album -- To Valentine -- Farewell my Brother -- Farewell -- To Sarah -- The Birth-day -- Written in a Bible -- To Woman -- What is a Friend? -- The Promise -- The Three Flowers -- To Mrs. Norton -- To Fancy -- The Blue Nose -- Friendship's Garden -- Tears -- The Travellers -- To the Moose -- The Talbots -- Cornelia!s Answer -- Cincinnatus -- To the Mayflower -- To the Linnet -- To the Fire-fly -- The Deserted Nest -- To a Rose -- The Wreath -- To the Town Clock -- A Toast -- The Fancy Ball No I -- The Fancy Ball No 2 -- Tom's Apology -- Once more I put my Bonnet on -- A New Member -- Epigrams -- Essays -- Shakspeare Oration -- Lecture on Eloquence -- Lecture on the Moral Influence of Woman -- Address at the Howe Family Gathering -- The Locksmith of Philadelphia, (a tale) -- Address -- Index