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Treasuring the past, savouring the present, and wanting to do right by the future, Archibald Lampman was a poet keenly focused on the workings of time. He was also a thinker of mystical predisposition. His goal was not to transcend time, but to find redemptive meaning within it. Archibald Lampman: Memory, Nature, Progress explores the ways in which Lampman pursued this goal in relation to the three faces of time. Memory fascinated Lampman. He relished the “alchemy” by which the dross of past experience could be left behind and the gold preserved. Nature compelled his mind and emotions, and his clear-eyed observations of both countryside and wilderness settings gave rise to a self-evolved poetics of inclusiveness. In his celebrations of nature in all its manifestations, mild or bleak, he anticipated the work of iconic Canadian painter Tom Thomson and he forecasted the environmentalism of our own time. Progress for Lampman spelled societal rectification. By forwarding the cause of social betterment, one was part of a movement larger than oneself, and this expansion, too, was redemptive. Archibald Lampman: Memory, Nature, Progress is the first book on this foundational figure in Canadian literature to appear in over twenty-five years and the first thematically focused study. Combining close analysis with biographical context, it shows how Lampman’s oeuvre was shaped by his responses to his physical surroundings and to his social-intellectual milieu, as filtered through his stubbornly independent outlook.
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The Confederation Poets were a group of Canadian English-language poets of the late nineteenth century whose work expressed the national consciousness inspired by the Confederation of 1867. Their transcendental and romantic praise of the Canadian landscape would go on to dominate Canadian poetry until the twentieth century. They were also called the Maple Tree School due to how their verses portrayed a touching love for the Canadian landscape. The term ‘Confederation Poets’ was coined by the Canadian professor and literary critic Malcolm Ross, who singled out four poets: Charles G. D. Roberts (1860–1943); Bliss Carman (1861–1929); Archibald Lampman (1861–1899); and Duncan Campbell Scott (1862–1947). They composed poems in a classic form, often on themes of love or philosophical speculation against the backdrop of nature; and they all reacted to Canada’s growing industrialisation, favouring a retreat to the as yet unspoiled wilderness. This comprehensive volume of the Delphi Poets Series presents the complete poetical works of the four principal members of the Confederation Poets, with numerous illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to the life and works of the Confederation Poets * Concise introduction to the Confederation Poets * The complete poetical works of the four principal Confederation Poets: Roberts, Carman, Lampman (the ‘Canadian Keats’) and Scott * Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the poems * Special alphabetical contents tables for all four poets * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Features two biographies — discover the literary lives of the Confederation Poets * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to see our wide range of poet titles CONTENTS: The Life and Poetry of Confederation Poets Brief Introduction: Confederation Poets Charles G. D. Roberts Orion and Other Poems In Divers Tones Songs of the Common Day and, Ave! An Ode for the Shelley Centenary The Book of the Native Poems, 1901 New York Nocturnes and Other Poems The Book of the Rose New Poems The Sweet o’ the Year and Other Poems The Vagrant of Time The Iceberg and Other Poems Charles G. D. Roberts: List of Poems in Alphabetical Order Bliss Carman Low Tide on Grand Pré Songs From Vagabondia A Seamark: A Threnody for Robert Louis Stevenson Behind The Arras Ballads of Lost Haven By The Aurelian Wall and Other Elegies More Songs From Vagabondia A Winter Holiday Last Songs From Vagabondia Ode on the Coronation of King Edward Pipes of Pan I. From The Book of Myths Pipes of Pan II. From the Green Book of the Bards Pipes of Pan III. Songs of the Sea Children Pipes of Pan IV. Songs from a Northern Garden Pipes of Pan V. From the Book of Valentines Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics The Rough Rider and Other Poems Echoes from Vagabondia April Airs The Vengeance of Noel Brassard Far Horizons Later Poems Bliss Carman: List of Poems in Alphabetical Order Archibald Lampman Among the Millett and Other Poems Lyrics of Earth Two Poems Privately Issued to their Friends at Christmastide Alcyone and Other Poems Sonnets Poems and Ballads David and Abigail The Story of an Affinity At the Long Sault and Other New Poems Archibald Lampman: List of Poems in Alphabetical Order Duncan Campbell Scott The Magic House and Other Poems Labor and the Angel New World Lyrics and Ballads Via Borealis Lundy’s Lane and Other Poems Beauty and Life The Poems of Duncan Campbell Scott The Green Cloister: Later Poems The Circle of Affection and Other Pieces Duncan Campbell Scott: List of Poems in Alphabetical Order The Biographies Memoir of Archibald Lampman by Duncan Campbell Scott Three Fredericton Poets by Lorne Albert Pierce Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of poetry titles or buy the entire Delphi Poets Series as a Super Set
These three works, displaying marked differences in purpose, tone, and effect, are all classics of Canadian literary and cultural criticism. John George Bourinot was a man of letters, an Imperialist, and a biculturalist, who was confident of his knowledge of the Canadian identity and felt it to be his public mission to align reality with his own personal vision. Writing in 1893 to the élite represented by the members of the Royal Society, he described his work as ‘a monograph on the intellectual development of the Dominion,’ describing ‘the progress of culture in a country still struggling with the difficulties of the material development of half a continent.’ Two decades later, Thomas Guthrie Marquis and Camille Roy wrote what were, in contrast, specialized assignments, contributions to the compendium history, Canada and Its Provinces (1913). Addressing a far larger audience, and treating a vastly enlarged body of Canadian literature, their work comes much closer to contemporary scholarship, with greater clarity, organization, and sheer bulk of information, but with the loss of some of the charm and assurance of Bourinot’s wide sweep. In further contrast to Bourinot’s determined biculturalism and will to unity, Roy and Marquis’ essays display vivid differences in the emotional allegiances and convictions of the founding cultures. Marquis starts by asking the question, ‘Has Canada a voice of her own in literature distinct from that of England?’; Roy treats French-Canadian literature in its Roman Catholic contexts.