ISBN10: 0802087396, ISBN13: 9780802087393, [publisher: Downsview, Ontario, Canada: Univ of Toronto Pr] Hardcover First Edition "As one of the formative periods in Canadian history, the late nineteenth century witnessed the birth of a nation, a people, and a literature. In this study of Canada's first 'school' of poets, D.M.R. Bentley combines archival work, including extensive research in periodicals and newspapers, with close readings of the work of Charles G.D. Roberts, Archibald Lampman, Bliss Carman, William Wilfred Campbell, Duncan Campbell Scott, and Frederick George Scott. Bentley chronicles the formation, reception, national and international successes, and eventual disintegration (after the 1895 'War Among the Poets') of the Confederation Group, whose poetry forever changed the perception and direction of Canadian literature.With the aid of biographical, political, and sociological analyses, Bentley's literary history delineates the group's political, aesthetic, and thematic dispositions and characteristics, and contextualizes them not only within Canadian history and politics, but also within contemporary intellectual and literary currents, including Romantic nationalism, 'Canadianism', and poetic formalism. Bentley casts new light on the poets' commonalities - such as their debt to Young Ireland, their commitment to careful workmanship, and their participation in the American mind-cure movement - as we ...

Downsview, Ontario, Canada: Univ of Toronto Pr 2004 1st Edition Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine jacket Book "As one of the formative periods in Canadian history, the late nineteenth century witnessed the birth of a nation, a people, and a literature. In this study of Canada's first 'school' of poets, D.M.R. Bentley combines archival work, including extensive research in periodicals and newspapers, with close readings of the work of Charles G.D. Roberts, Archibald Lampman, Bliss Carman, William Wilfred Campbell, Duncan Campbell Scott, and Frederick George Scott. Bentley chronicles the formation, reception, national and international successes, and eventual disintegration (after the 1895 'War Among the Poets') of the Confederation Group, whose poetry forever changed the perception and direction of Canadian literature. With the aid of biographical, political, and sociological analyses, Bentley's literary history delineates the group's political, aesthetic, and thematic dispositions and characteristics, and contextualizes them not only within Canadian history and politics, but also within contemporary intellectual and literary currents, including Romantic nationalism, 'Canadianism', and poetic formalism. Bentley casts new light on the poets' commonalities-such as their debt to Young Ireland, their commitment to careful workmanship, and their participation in the American mind-cure movement-as well as on their most accomplished and anthologized poems from 1880 to 1897. In the p ...

ISBN10: 0802087396, ISBN13: 9780802087393, [publisher: University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada] Hardcover First Edition Faint smudge on bottom edge, else fine. DJ rippled on spine, else near fine. Protected in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Date: 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0802087396 . Stiff unmarked book in glossy dust jacket; about new. ; 9.1 X 6.1 X 1.7 inches; 432 pages . 2004. University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division ISBN 0802087396 9780802087393 [CA]

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division 2004 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket 0802087396. Stiff unmarked book in glossy dust jacket; about new.; 9.1 X 6.1 X 1.7 inches; 432 pages.