canadian literature poetry
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CANADIAN LITERATURE
Poetry
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
„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
For Archibald Lampman, Charles G. D: Robert’s Orion, first glimpse of Canadian poetry
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
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
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.
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
Tish
Focus on elemental aspect of life, revitalizing of the language pf poetry
George Bowering – Black Mountain Schools
Robert Kroetsch
Complex archeological metaphor out of autobiography
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