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Author Greenhill, Pauline, 1955-

Title True poetry : traditional and popular verse in Ontario / Pauline Greenhill
Published Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1989

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 229 pages) : 2 maps
Series desLibris. Books collection
Contents Contents -- Maps and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Appropriation, Appropriateness, and Ontario Folk Poetry -- 2 The Appropriateness of Community -- 3 Ontario Folk Poetry and Its Appropriate Contexts -- 4 Appropriating Popular Poetry -- 5 Appropriating a Hero -- 6 Folk Poetry and Opposition -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
Summary Focusing on the importance of traditional and popular poetry for the poets, the presenters, and the local audience, Greenhill examines the activity of creating and using poetry in a community context. She gives numerous examples of Ontario folk verse, among them twenty-one poems about Canadian runner Terry Fox, whose battle with cancer inspired many folk poets. True Poetry pioneers the examination of folk poetry in Canada and adds to a limited body of scholarship on the topic. It will be of interest to anyone concerned with Canadian society, traditional folklore, and popular culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Folk poetry, Canadian -- Ontario -- History and criticism
Popular literature -- Ontario -- History and criticism
Poets, Canadian -- Homes and haunts -- Ontario
Popular culture -- Ontario
Canadian poetry -- Ontario -- History and criticism
Canadian poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
Canadian poetry
Folk poetry, Canadian
Intellectual life
Literature
Poets, Canadian -- Homes and haunts
Popular culture
Popular literature
Volkslyrik
SUBJECT Ontario -- Intellectual life
Ontario -- In literature
Subject Ontario
Ontario
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773561991
0773561994
1282851330
9781282851337
9786612851339
6612851333