Harsh and Lovely Land : The Major Canadian Poets and the Making of a Canadian Tradition.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART ONE: HALF-BREEDS: THE PIONEERS -- Dear Bad Poets -- Mountaineers and Swimmers -- Archibald Lampman -- Half-Breeds -- Weather -- PART TWO: INNER WEATHER: THE MODERNISTS -- Cross-Drafts -- The nth Adam -- The Mountaineer -- The Swimmer's Moment -- War Poets and Postwar Poets -- PART THREE: PERSPECTIVE: THE INHERITORS -- Space and Ancestors -- Perspective -- Facts and Dreams Again -- Poets of a Certain Age -- PART FOUR: QUEST INTO DARKNESS: THE POET-NOVELISTS -- The Lake of Darkness -- A History of Us All -- Deeper Darkness, after Choreography -- Arcana Canadiana -- Atwood under and above Water -- Bourgeois and Arsonist -- Conclusion -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Y -- Z.

Poet-critic Tom Marshall examines four stages in the development of a purely Canadian tradition in poetry through a focus on the work of major poets writing in English from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

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