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1 online resource (265 pages) |
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Reappraisals, Canadian writers, 1189-6787 ; 32 |
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Re-appraisals, Canadian writers ; 32.
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Contents |
Reference Key; Introduction; Ingredients for Certain Poems by Al Purdy; Materials for a Biography of Al Purdy; Unremembered and Learning Much: LAC Alfred W. Purdy; Al Purdy: Ivory Thots and the Last Romantic; Purdy among the Tombs; Beyond Forgetting: Editing Purdy] Purdy Editing; 'I couldn't write it like that anyway': Al Purdy's Hiroshima Poems; Purdy's Ruins: In Search of Owen Roblin, Literary Power, and the Poetics of the Picturesque; Arctic Al: Purdy's Humanist Vision of the North; Good People; 'Living in a Land of Giants': Locating and Sustaining Boyhood |
Summary |
If one poet can be said to be the Canadian poet, that poet is Al Purdy (1918-2000). Numerous eminent scholars and writers have attested to this pre-eminent status. George Bowering described him as "the world's most Canadian poet" (1970), while Sam Solecki titled his book-length study of Purdy The Last Canadian Poet (1999). In The Ivory Thought: Essays on Al Purdy, a group of seventeen scholars, critics, writers, and educators appraise and reappraise Purdy's contribution to English literature. They explore Purdy's continuing significance to contemporary writers; the life he dedicated to literat |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Subject |
Purdy, Al, 1918-2000 -- Criticism and interpretation
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SUBJECT |
Purdy, Al, 1918-2000 -- Critique et interpretation
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Purdy, Al, 1918-2000 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Purdy, Al, 1918-2000 fast |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Canadian.
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Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Lynch, Gerald, 1953-
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Ganz, Shoshannah, 1976-
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Kealey, Josephene T. M., 1980-
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ISBN |
9780776617572 |
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0776617575 |
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