Download or read book E J Pratt Letters written by E.J. Pratt Library and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-01-18 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of E.J. Pratt’s letters is the final volume in the Collected Works series. Because of Pratt’s role in the making of Canadian culture between and after the World Wars, his correspondence highlights key moments in our cultural history and provides a view of the enterprise from its very centre. The letters take us into his "workshop," illuminating the research behind his distinctive documentary long poems and the social nature of his creative production. They also reveal the complex network of writers, critics, artists and political figures of which Pratt was a part, the evolution of the Canadian book trade from the 1920s through to the early 1960s, and the emergence of radio (and specifically, of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) as a tool for forging national identity. Pratt's correspondence both confirms the public persona of one of Canada’s first literary celebrities and provides glimpses of the private character behind the mask.
Download or read book The Poetry of E J Pratt written by John Sutherland and published by Toronto, Ryerson. This book was released on 1956 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book E J Pratt written by David George Pitt and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland Letters written by Linda M. Morra and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An edited, annotated collection of funny, affectionate, and insightful letters between two Canadian literary icons.
Download or read book James H Pratt Letters written by James H. Pratt and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection consists of two letters written by James H. Pratt, one while he served in the quartermaster's office in Little Rock, Arkansas, and one written in 1895.
Download or read book The Letters written by Abraham Moses Klein and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final volume of the Collected Works of A.M. Klein, Elizabeth Popham completes the process of restoring the public voice of one of Canada's most respected authors. A.M. Klein: The Letters is the first compilation of a significant body of Klein's correspondence. Using his communications to construct a compelling narrative, Popham traces Klein's career from his apprenticeship to great critical success and his tragically premature silence. The content of Klein's letters gives new resonance to his works, most notably to his critically acclaimed novel The Second Scroll (1951) and his Governor General Award-winning The Rocking Chair and Other Poems (1948). In his exchanges with publishers and scholars, Klein glosses his own writing and argues for the integrity of his poetic vision. Samplings of his correspondence with Seagram's Distilleries clarify Klein's controversial role as ghost-writer and PR consultant for Sam Bronfman. A valuable resource for understanding Canadian literary modernism, diasporic Judaism, and the culture of Montreal, A.M. Klein: The Letters is a remarkable portrait of an important Canadian literary figure of the twentieth century. Elizabeth Popham is an associate professor in the Department of English Literature at Trent University
Download or read book E J Pratt written by David George Pitt and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pursuits Amateur and Academic written by Edwin John Pratt and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Poetry is the foundation of E.J. Pratt's eminence in Canadian literary history, yet there exists a significant body of his work which has not been widely available until now. Pratt was a prolific writer of prose and an important commentator on the literature and life of his day." "Pratt had a varied career as a theological student, psychology scholar, and professor of English. As editor of Canadian Poetry he fostered poets like Earle Birney and Dorothy Livesay, and the editorials he wrote while at the helm of the magazine are important documents of Canadian literary history. His prose records both his dislike of modernism's 'obscurantist excesses' and his sympathy with its anti-romanticism. In his writing he was equally impatient with naive optimism and unrelieved pessimism, seeking a mean when he argued that 'messages of hope and faith need to be run through the bulletins of realism.'" "In Pursuits Amateur and Academic Susan Gingell has gathered together stories, essays, editorials, reviews, prefaces, introductions, and lectures, some of them previously unpublished. This volume not only enhances our understanding of Pratt's poetry, but gives us considerable insight into both the rich dimensions of Pratt's life outside poetry and the cultural and intellectual life of his times."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Bolder Flights written by Frank Tierney and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1999-01-07 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A growing number of literary historians and critics now recognize the contemporary long poem as a distinctively Canadian genre. This collection of essays leads the reader to a deeper understanding of Canadian literary cultures in terms of their local intimacies and idiosyncrasies as well as in their national contexts.
Download or read book Remembering Northrop Frye written by Robert D. Denham and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together letters from 89 of Northrop Frye's students, friends, and acquaintances in which they record their recollections of him as a teacher and a person during the 1940s and 1950s. A number of the correspondents also provide their impressions of Victoria College at the time, where Frye taught for more than 50 years. The letters provide insights into Frye as a teacher that are not elsewhere available, and reveal a consistent portrait of an intellectually superlative, generous, and thoughtful man.
Download or read book The Complete Poems of George Whalley written by Michael John DiSanto and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eminent Canadian man of letters, scholar, naval officer and secret intelligence agent, CBC scriptwriter, musician, biographer, and translator, George Whalley (1915-1983) was also a gifted poet whose work spans five decades. Along with his major critical work, Poetic Process, and his superb biography, The Legend of John Hornby, Whalley’s poetry is an important contribution to the emergence and development of twentieth-century modernism. The Complete Poems of George Whalley is the first collection of Whalley’s entire poetic oeuvre. It contains the previously published work from his two books of poetry, Poems 1939-1944 and No Man An Island, as well as pieces that appeared in periodicals and edited collections. It gathers all his unpublished poems found in public archives and his personal papers, letters, and journals. This collection reinforces Whalley’s place as the foremost Canadian poet of the Second World War, during and immediately after which the majority of these works were written. It also emphasizes the humour and playfulness of his early and late poems. Michael DiSanto’s introduction provides an overview of Whalley’s life and career, and examines the relationship between his poetics and criticism by consulting his essays, letters, and unpublished papers. Restoring Whalley’s poetry and literary contributions to their rightful place in the Canadian canon, this comprehensive collection opens new chapters on mid-twentieth-century modernism and war poetry.
Download or read book E J Pratt the Master Years 1927 1964 written by David George Pitt and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Park Service Concessions Policy written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Parks, Recreation, and Renewable Resources and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book E J Pratt on His Life and Poetry written by Edwin John Pratt and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Calvin E Pratt Letters written by Calvin E. Pratt and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letter from Calvin E. Pratt to Thomas Hillhouse, dated Headquarters 31st New York Volunteers, April 5, 1862. Letter discusses recommending Captain Levi A. Fuller of the 31st New York Volunteers for a promotion.
Download or read book Towards the Last Spike written by E. J. Pratt and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Towards the Last Spike was written in 1952 by Canadian poet E. J. Pratt. It is a long narrative poem in blank verse about the construction of the first transcontinental railroad line in Canada, that of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), from 1871 through 1885. Excerpt: "It was the same world then as now—the same, Except for little differences of speed And power, and means to treat myopia To show an axe-blade infinitely sharp Splitting things infinitely small, or else Provide the telescopic sight to roam Through curved dominions never found in fables. The same, but for new particles of speech..."
Download or read book The Letters of John Sutherland 1942 1956 written by John Sutherland and published by . This book was released on 1992-12 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beginning, John Sutherland recognized that his literary gifts lay in criticism rather than in poetry. His independence from the academy and his largely autodidactic training gave him a unique perspective as a critic of Canadian literature. What these letters document, beyond a purely personal struggle, is a period (1942–1956) of great importance in the development of Canadian poetry, and it is above all the nuts and bolts of that development that they bring into keen relief: the economics of publishing books and literary magazines in the days before The Canada Council, and the difficulty, if not the impossibility, of trying wholly to live a life in literature at that time.
