On poetry and poets
Subtitle: selected essays of A. J. M. Smith
By: with an introd. by the author.
Series: New Canadian library ; no. 143
Publisher: McClelland and Stewart; New Canadian Library
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 122
Subjects: Canadian poetry -- History and criticism; Poetics
Notes: Bibliography: p. [vi]
Table of contents: title: Canadian anthologies new and old.; title: Introduction to The book of Canadian poetry.; title: Critics and biographers.; title: The poetry of Duncan Campbell Scott.; title: The refining fire.; title: A salute to Layton.; title: Introduction to The blasted pine.; title: To Jay Macpherson, on her Book of poems.; title: A garland for E. J. Pratt.; title: Two book reviews.; title: The poet and the nuclear crisis.; title: Poet in residence.; title: To Frank Scott, Esq. on the occasion of his seventieth birthday.; title: The poetics of Alfred Bailey.; title: The confessions of a compulsive anthologist.