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Title

The last Canadian poet : an essay on Al Purdy / Sam Solecki.

Author

Solecki, Sam.

Publication

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1999.

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Description

xvii, 316 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• "In The Last Canadian Poet Sam Solecki offers the first book-length study of the entire body of work of Al Purdy. This book takes into account not only Purdy's more than forty published books, but also the manuscripts from the Purdy archives at the University of Saskatchewan and Queen's University.".
• "The Last Canadian Poet suggests that Purdy's work articulates a vision of Canada, both of what it is and of what it might be. It is a poetic vision of one man's encounter with his country and the world. Purdy's poems record his sense of being in the world as a Canadian, of being rooted in a particular landscape, way of life, and history. They also show the struggle for a Canadian poetics, a way of writing in what might be called the Canadian grain."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

Purdy, Al, 1918-2000 > Criticism and interpretation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

I. Poetry, Nation, and the Last Canadian Poet -- II. The Poetry of Al Purdy. 1. Bliss Carman's Shadow. 2. D. H. Lawrence in North America. 3. The Limits of Lyric. 4. Poetry and the Poet. 5. Starting from Ameliasburg: Old Rid, Owen Roblin, and Al. 6. History and Nation. 7. Origins and Being. 8. Conclusion: The Future of the Past. App. Annotating the Poems of Al Purdy: Quotation, Allusion, Echo, and (Some) References.

ISBN

0802047157 :

LCCN

cn 99930994

OCLC

41347263

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries