canadian literature poetry
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CANADIAN LITERATURE
Poetry
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The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970) Margaret Atwood
Susanna Moodie „large darkness” pioneer
a word/in a foreign language
Description of something alien
Cut off from her old environment of England
She sees as an uncultured landscape awaiting transformation into a cultured world
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„national literature is an essential element in the
formation of national character. It is not merely the
record of a country’s mental progress: it is the
expression of its intellectual life, the bond of national
unity, and the guide of national energy”
Edward Hartley Dewart
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For Archibald Lampman, Charles G. D: Robert’s Orion, first glimpse of Canadian poetry
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Isabella Valancy Crawford Malcolm’s Katie (1884)
• Long narrative in blank verse
• Tradition of narrative poems in substantial lengths
Confederation poets:
Archibald Lampman
April, Heat, In October
Detailed landscapes of semi cultivated nature
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The Modernists Poets
To reshape and to revolutionize poetry (Montreal 1920)
A.J. M Smith (Arthur James Marshall Smith ) McGill Daily, McGill Fortnightly Review
With F.R. Scott (Francis Reginald Scott ) center of innovative spirit in poetry
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Irving Layton: First Statement first volume Here and Now
A poet is one who explores new areas of sensibility
Northrop Frye began to write probing articles on the developing traditions in Canadian poetry.
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West Coast Poetry and Al Purdy’s Landscape of Ontario
Avant-garde writing
Robert Duncan
David Dawson
Fred Wah
Jamie Reid
Projective verse: poetry is oral rather a written form of expression
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Tish
Focus on elemental aspect of life, revitalizing of the language pf poetry
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George Bowering – Black Mountain Schools
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Robert Kroetsch
Complex archeological metaphor out of autobiography
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Meegwetch!