The snarl around our dory
Subtitle: the long line of Island traditions
By: J. Edward Chamberlin ; frontispiece by Wesley Bates
Series: The 2009 Pratt lecture; Pratt lecture -- 2009.
Publisher: Running the Goat
Published: 2010
Place of publication: St. John's, NL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 35
ISBN-13: 9780973757866
Subjects: Islands in literature; Sea in literature; Ocean and civilization
Description: "J. Edward Chamberlin takes the title for his 2009 Pratt lecture from E. J. Pratt's poem "The Fog." Pratt writes of the fog, "It drew the song from our throats"; and the poem draws from Chamberlin a remarkable meditation on how islands inhabit our imagination and how island traditions have shaped cultures, have given us stories and songs that sustain us. With his typically wide reach, Chamberlin gathers a host of writers, thinkers, singers, explorers and rebels to inform this lecture: from Franklin Russell to Wallace Stevens, from Thomas Hardy to Jacob Le Maire, from Emily Dickinson to Ron Hynes, from William Wordsworth to Louis Riel. The result is an essay of remarkable breadth and generosity that probes the "covenant in wonder" which is the essence of Story"--Pub. website.
Notes: "Erratum" slip laid in.

Limited ed. of 250 copies.

Includes bibliographical references.