Harsh and Lovely Land: The Major Canadian Poets and the Making of a Canadian TraditionPoet-critic Tom Marshall examines four stages in the development of apurely Canadian tradition in poetry through a focus on the work ofmajor poets writing in English from the mid-nineteenth century to thepresent. |
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| Title | Harsh and Lovely Land: The Major Canadian Poets and the Making of a Canadian Tradition |
| Author | Tom Marshall |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | UBC Press, 1980 |
| ISBN | 0774801301, 9780774801300 |
| Length | 184 pages |
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