Research Catalog

Title

A world of songs : selected poems, 1894-1921 / L.M. Montgomery ; edited by Benjamin Lefebvre.

Author

Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942

Publication

• Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

Lefebvre, Benjamin

Description

xix, 140 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"Although L.M. Montgomery (1874-1942) is celebrated as a novelist, made famous by her novel Anne of Green Gables and its sequels, it is less known that she also published hundreds of poems over a period of half a century. Although this output included a chapbook and a full-length collection in which she presented herself primarily as a nature poet, most of her poems appeared in periodicals, including women's magazines, farm papers, faith-based periodicals, daily and weekly newspapers, and magazines for children. As a shrewd businesswoman, she learned to find the balance between literary quality and commercial salability, even though poetry paid far less than short fiction. A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894-1921, the second volume in The L.M. Montgomery Library, gathers a selection of fifty poems originally published across a twenty-five-year period. Leading Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre organizes this work within the context of Montgomery's life and career, claiming Montgomery not only as a nature poet but also as the author of a wider range of "songs": of place, of memory, of lamentation, of war, of land and sea, of death, and of love. Many of these poems echo motifs that readers of Montgomery's novels will recognize, and many more explore surprising perspectives through the use of male speakers. These poems offer today's readers a new facet of the career of Canada's most enduringly popular author."--

Series Statement

• The L.M. Montgomery library
• Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942. L.M. Montgomery library.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subjects

• Poetry
• Poésie
• 2000-2099
• Montgomery, L. M (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942
• Canadian poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-134) and indexes.

Call Number

JFD 19-3172

ISBN

• 9781487523695
• 1487523696
• 9781487505097
• 1487505094

OCLC

1057648389

Author

Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942, author.

Title

A world of songs : selected poems, 1894-1921 / L.M. Montgomery ; edited by Benjamin Lefebvre.

Publisher

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The L.M. Montgomery library

Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942. L.M. Montgomery library.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-134) and indexes.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Lefebvre, Benjamin, editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 19-3172