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The Montreal Forties: Modernist Poetry in Transition

Brian Trehearne - Poetry - 1999 - 404 pages
During WWII, a number of Canadian poets converged on Montreal and rewrote the story of modern English-Canadian poetry. The book discusses the four major English-Canadian poets ...
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Aestheticism and the Canadian Modernists: Aspects of a Poetic Influence

Brian Trehearne - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 392 pages
Using a wide range of scholarly evidence to support his argument that most poets of the first Canadian Modernist generation were strongly influenced by the ideas and practice ...
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Aestheticism and the Canadian Modernists: Aspects of a Poetic Influence

Brian Trehearne - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 381 pages
Trehearne observes that in most cases the Aesthetic influence was sustained through the entire career of the poets whose work he examines. Although later affected by the ...
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Always Now: From elsewhere ; Winter sun ; The dumbfounding ; Translations

Margaret Avison - Poetry - 2003 - 262 pages
The three volumes of Always Now contain all of Margaret Avison's published books of poetry. The author has removed a very few poems: `Public Address' (from Winter Sun), `The ...
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Archive for Our Times: Previously Uncollected and Unpublished Poems of ...

Dorothy Livesay - Canada - 1998 - 292 pages
Above all a poem records speech: the way it was said between people animals birds a poem is an archive for our times -Dorothy Livesay, "Anything Goes" Dorothy Livesay, who died ...
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Poetry of Midcentury, 1940-1960

Milton Wilson - Canadian poetry - 1964 - 294 pages
A collection of poetry by ten Canadian poets: Earle Birney, Irving Layton, Margaret Avison, Raymond Souster, James Reaney, P.K. Page, Leonard Cohen, Jay MacPherson, Kenneth ...
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