Richard Outram
Subtitle: Essays on His Works
By: edited by Ingrid Ruthig
Edition: First edition
Series: Guernica Essential Writers Series
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario
Language: eng
Format: Trade paperback
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781550712803
Copyright date: 2011
Description: This volume presents the first posthumous panorama of poet Richard Outram's work and achievement. It includes an interview, a lecture, an elegy, and new essays by poets and writers who admire Outram's commitment to “concision and precision” in language. Outram, who died in January, 2005, has been quietly lauded as a major figure in 20th-century English-Canadian literature. Yet in his lifetime, despite international attention, he received only minor recognition from Canada's literary establishment. Born in 1930, in Oshawa, Ontario, he studied English and philosophy at the University of Toronto. Northrop Frye and Emil Fackenheim, who were among his professors, remained important figures for him in the example they had set of "living an examined life, the life of the mind."
Notes: Volume #28
Table of contents: label: Introduction: Walking Unfamiliar Roads Barefoot
title: by Ingrid Ruthig
pagenum: 4; label: Faith and Resilience: An Interview with Richard Outram
title: by Michael Carbert
pagenum: 9; label: The Richard Outram / Northrop Frye Connection
title: by Robert D. Denham
pagenum: 27; label: Writing Beyond The Self: The Poet’s Regenerative Voice
title: by Ingrid Ruthig
pagenum: 40; label: Ellipses and Interstices
title: by Zachariah Wells
pagenum: 54; label: Sequence and Personae
title: by Amanda Jernigan
pagenum: 63; label: O Were This Animal World Otherwise Narrated: Mogul Recollected Through Six Questions
title: by Brian Bartlett
pagenum: 82; label: Mosquitoes in Eden: Myth and Eros in Dove Legend
title: by Eric Ormsby
pagenum: 96; label: The Gauntlet Mandala
title: by Jeffery Donaldson
pagenum: 108; label: “Of Death and Bright Entanglement and Troth” and Outram’s Last Poems
title: by Peter Sanger
pagenum: 123; label: An Exercise in Exegesis
title: by Richard Outram
pagenum: 152; label: Biography
pagenum: 167; label: Bibliography
pagenum: 169