CANADIAN LITERATURE

Poetry

The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970) Margaret Atwood

Susanna Moodie „large darkness” pioneer

a word/in a foreign language

Description of something alien

Cut off from her old environment of England

She sees as an uncultured landscape awaiting transformation into a cultured world

„national literature is an essential element in the

formation of national character. It is not merely the

record of a country’s mental progress: it is the

expression of its intellectual life, the bond of national

unity, and the guide of national energy”

Edward Hartley Dewart

For Archibald Lampman, Charles G. D: Robert’s Orion, first glimpse of Canadian poetry

Isabella Valancy Crawford Malcolm’s Katie (1884)

• Long narrative in blank verse

• Tradition of narrative poems in substantial lengths

Confederation poets:

Archibald Lampman

April, Heat, In October

Detailed landscapes of semi cultivated nature

The Modernists Poets

To reshape and to revolutionize poetry (Montreal 1920)

A.J. M Smith (Arthur James Marshall Smith ) McGill Daily, McGill Fortnightly Review

With F.R. Scott (Francis Reginald Scott ) center of innovative spirit in poetry

Irving Layton: First Statement first volume Here and Now

A poet is one who explores new areas of sensibility

Northrop Frye began to write probing articles on the developing traditions in Canadian poetry.

West Coast Poetry and Al Purdy’s Landscape of Ontario

Avant-garde writing

Robert Duncan

David Dawson

Fred Wah

Jamie Reid

Projective verse: poetry is oral rather a written form of expression

Tish

Focus on elemental aspect of life, revitalizing of the language pf poetry

George Bowering – Black Mountain Schools

Robert Kroetsch

Complex archeological metaphor out of autobiography

Meegwetch!