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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