The present volume, situating the poets in their historical context, hatches a graph of the growth of Canadian poetry in English from the first stirrings of a poetic culture to the flowering of modernist poetry through the emergence of a nationalist poetic sensibility. The poets, which the study includes are Charles Sangster, Charles Heavysege, Charles Mair of the pre-Confederation period, Lampman, Roberts, Carman and D.C. Scott of the Confederation period and ...
