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The volume offers a full sampling of Pratt's poems chosen both for their representativeness and for their intrinsic value.
Author : Edwin John Pratt
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0802057756
The volume offers a full sampling of Pratt's poems chosen both for their representativeness and for their intrinsic value.
Author : John Gay
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Page : 376 pages
File Size : 21,82 MB
Release : 1826
Category : English poetry
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Author : E J Pratt
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Page : 66 pages
File Size : 23,39 MB
Release : 2020-02-29
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'the Fable of the Goats, and other poetry' is a poetry collection by the esteemed Canadian author, E.J Pratt. Published in 1937, this collection is masterfully written, and contains the following poems: The Fable of the GoatsThe BaritonePuck Reports BackSilencesA Prayer-MedleyFireSeen on the RoadThe Prize CatUnder the LensThe Seer(To Any Astronomer)The Text of the OathLike Mother, Like DaughterThe MirageThe Old Organon (1225 A.D.)The New (1937 A.D.)The MysticThe DrowningThe Weather GlassThe Empty RoomEJ Pratt (Edward John Dove Pratt) was born on February 4, 1882 in Western Bay, Newfoundland. Though he was originally from Newfoundland, Pratt spent most of his life in Toronto, Ontario, and was the leading Canadian poet of his time. He was a three-time winner of the country's Governor General's Award for poetry
Author : John Gay
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 31,84 MB
Release : 1824
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Author : John Gay
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 37,22 MB
Release : 1824
Category : Fables
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Author : Angela T. McAuliffe
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 10,12 MB
Release : 2000-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0773568484
Drawing on a wide variety of newly available source material, Angela McAuliffe examines the roots of Pratt's religious attitudes, including his strict Methodist upbringing in Newfoundland and his plans to enter the ministry. She explores Pratt's early prose and unpublished poetry, including his theses on demonology and Pauline eschatology and the unpublished poem "Clay," to trace the origins of religious ideas and motifs that occur in his later work. McAuliffe focuses on key motifs in Pratt's poetry, such as his image of a distant and formidable God, his apocalyptic vision of the world, and his belief in determinism and fate. She concludes that the diversity of religious positions attributed to Pratt and the image of God that emerges from his poetry are facets of the ironic vision of a man of twentieth-century sensibility who wrestled with God and sought a medium of expression equal to his themes.
Author : A.M. Klein
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 34,36 MB
Release : 2011-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1442663758
In the final volume of the Collected Works of A.M. Klein, Elizabeth Popham completes the process of restoring the public voice of one of Canada's most respected authors. A.M. Klein: The Letters is the first compilation of a significant body of Klein's correspondence. Using his communications to construct a compelling narrative, Popham traces Klein's career from his apprenticeship to great critical success and his tragically premature silence. The content of Klein's letters gives new resonance to his works, most notably to his critically acclaimed novel The Second Scroll (1951) and his Governor General Award-winning The Rocking Chair and Other Poems (1948). In his exchanges with publishers and scholars, Klein glosses his own writing and argues for the integrity of his poetic vision. Samplings of his correspondence with Seagram's Distilleries clarify Klein's controversial role as ghost-writer and PR consultant for Sam Bronfman. A valuable resource for understanding Canadian literary modernism, diasporic Judaism, and the culture of Montreal, A.M. Klein: The Letters is a remarkable portrait of an important Canadian literary figure of the twentieth century.
Author : Stephen Thiermann
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 43,54 MB
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1105618579
Mildred Hunter Thiermann's life story and spiritual journey span multiple worlds. Born a century ago in central Ontario, she experienced the twentieth century as an adventure of religious exploration and political discovery. The daughter of a progressive minister in the United Church of Canada, Mildred's early embrace of the Quaker faith and her marriage to an American conscientious objector at the close of WW II opened her heart to transformative spiritual awakenings as she traveled from Canada to sojourns in the United States, Europe, New York City, and finally her spiritual world. "Among birthright Quakers I call myself a birthright Methodist," she quotes. Her story reflects the quest of feminist religious seekers throughout the Western World "who seek to know God" through the lens of political action, social justice, international organization, and family.
Author : Amanda Goldrick-Jones
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 27,80 MB
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1551114852
Among the poets new to this edition are such leading names as Americans Robert Pinsky, Louise Erdrich and Louise Glück; Britons James Fenton and Carol Ann Duffy; and Canadians Anne Carson, Robert Bringhurst, and Christian Bök. A number of names who may be new to many readers of poetry are also included among them: Ohioan Debra Allbery, Vancouverite Elise Partridge, and the Cree poet Connie Fife; as with the first edition, the editors have endeavored to include much that is fresh as well as much that is familiar. There are many additions to the selections from poets who appeared in the first edition including selections from the recent work of Leonard Cohen, Les Murray, and Margaret Atwood. As before, the anthology includes work from English-language poets throughout the world from India, Africa, and the Caribbean as well as from Britain, North America, and Australia. Although the selections from the work of poets of earlier eras are largely unchanged from the first edition, there have been some changes; among poems added for this edition are Milton’s L’Allegro and Il Penseroso, Bradstreet’s “Employment,” Dickinson’s “I cannot live without You,” Frost’s “Once by the Pacific,” and Auden’s “Funeral Blues.” As before, the text emphasizes work of the past century; poems from 1900 or later take up more than half of the anthology’s pages. In its first edition The Broadview Anthology of Poetry included biographical information about the poets at the back of the anthology; for the new edition, biographical material appears in a headnote to each poet. Two other features are also new to this edition: the date of first publication is appended after each poem, and line numbering is used throughout. The numbers have been kept unobtrusive, however; as with the first edition, the designers have endeavored to give a clean look to the pages of the anthology. A substantial section on prosody, figures of speech, and so on is included as an appendix.
Author : Rosemary Milne
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 28,22 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1741768101
Choose with confidence this playful book of lively rhymes from the author of the Play School theme: 'There's a Bear in There'. Great fun for young children, and great for learning language.