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Account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics
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 ...
The present study entitled ‘Time in the Poetry of Matthew Arnold’ focuses on Arnold’s three fold, present and future, which are also identified with the ‘the forest glade’, ‘the burning or darkling plain’ and ‘the wide glimmering sea’ separated from one another by a kind of ‘gorge’. As a whole, this dialectic denotes the life of an individual and these regions are childhood, maturity and old age or death. The first is a period of joyous ...