Canadian poetry, 1920 to 1960
By: edited and with an afterword by Brian Trehearne
Series: New Canadian library
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9780771086311; 9780771086342
Subjects: Canadian poetry
Description: "The poets in this anthology, all of whom matured creatively between 1920 and 1960, considered it one of their primary obligations to modernize Canadian writing, to bring the country's poetry out of late Romantic stasis after the Great War into a fertile and combative response to the cultural, political, technological, philosophical, religious, and economic conditions of the modern era. In their common reaction against Romanticism, and in their commitments to modern poetry's possibilities of profound newness, the poets in this volume make up one great movement in Canada's cultural history."--pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 446-449) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Newfound ; The shark ; Sea-gulls ; From stone to steel ; The highway ; The prize cat ; Titanic ; Come away, death ; The truant / E.J. Pratt, pp. 22-73.; title: Frank Oliver Call, 1878-1956; title: Louise Morey Bowman, 1882-1944; title: Raymond Knister, 1899-1932; title: Joe Wallace, 1890-1975; title: E.J. Pratt, 1882-1964; title: W.W.E. Ross, 1894-1966; title: F.R. Scott, 1899-1985; title: A.J.M. Smith, 1902-1980; title: Charles Bruce, 1906-1971; title: Earle Birney, 1904-1995; title: A.M. Klein, 1909-1972; title: Dorothy Livesay, 1909-1996; title: Leo Kennedy, 1907-2000; title: Audrey Alexandra Brown, 1904-1998; title: Kenneth Leslie, 1892-1974; title: Robert Finch, 1900-1995; title: Floris Clark McLaren, 1904-1978; title: L.A. MacKay, 1901-1982; title: Anne Marriott, 1913-1997; title: Bertram Warr, 1917-1943; title: Patrick Anderson, 1915-1979; title: P.K. Page, 1916-2010; title: Kay Smith, 1911-2004; title: Miriam Waddington, 1917-2004; title: Margaret Avison, 1918-2007; title: A.G. Bailey, 1905-1997; title: Louis Dudek, 1918-2001; title: John Glassco, 1909-1981; title: Ralph Gustafson, 1909-1995; title: Raymond Souster, b. 1921; title: Irving Layton, 1912-2006; title: Roy Daniells, 1902-1979; title: Dougla Lepan, 1914-1998; title: George Whalley, 1915-1983; title: James Reaney, 1926-2008; title: Elizabeth Brewster, b. 1922; title: George Johnston, 1913-2004; title: Goodridge MacDonald, 1897-1967; title: Jay MacPherson, b. 1931; title: Anne Wilkinson, 1910-1961; title: Phyllis Webb, b. 1927; title: Wilfred Watson, 1911-1998; title: R.A.D. Ford, 1915-1998; title: Eldon Grier, 1917-2001.