The Dying Indian's Dream: A Poem


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"The Dying Indian's Dream: A Poem" by Silas Tertius Rand Silas Tertius Rand was a Canadian Baptist clergyman, missionary, ethnologist, linguist, and translator. His work primarily focused on his home country and his love for it. In this poem, he steps into the shoes of the Canadian indigenous populations. As settlers came to the north, many native men and women were forced to relocate. This text pays some respect and takes a beautiful look at the Canadian wilderness.




The Dying Indian's Dream


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Rand and the Micmacs


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Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century


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The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.







The Social, Cultural and Spiritual Dimensions of Modern Indian Poetry in English


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This volume brings together research papers on the poetry of modern Indian poets, particularly those whose poetry is less explored. It is well known that post-Independence India has produced many brilliant writers whose writings have their own importance in the field of Indian English literature. These writers have brought new themes and new styles of writing that have enriched Indian English literature to a greater extent. The book explores the social, cultural and spiritual dimensions of these emerging poets, and will prove useful to students, teachers and all those interested in Indian English poetry for studies and research purposes.




Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century


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With contributions from over 100 scholars, the Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Centry provides essays on the careers, works, and backgrounds of more than 100 nineteenth-century poets. It also provides entries on specialized categories of twentieth-century verse such as hymns, folk ballads, spirituals, Civil War songs, and Native American poetry. Besides presenting essential factual information, each entry amounts to an in-depth critical essay, and includes a bibliography that directs readers to other works by and about a particular poet.