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The ivory thought : essays on Al Purdy /
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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Ottawa :
University of Ottawa Press,
©2008.
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| Series: | Re-appraisals, Canadian writers ;
32. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.