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Old New York By Edith Wharton The novellas are not directly interconnected, though certain fictional characters appear in more than one story. The New York of these stories is the same as the New York of The Age of Innocence (1920), from which several fictional characters have spilled over into these stories. The observation of…
Old New York By Edith Wharton The novellas are not directly interconnected, though certain fictional characters appear in more than one story. The New York of these stories is the same as the New York of The Age of Innocence (1920), from which several fictional characters have spilled over into these stories. The observation of…
Old New York By Edith Wharton The novellas are not directly interconnected, though certain fictional characters appear in more than one story. The New York of these stories is the same as the New York of The Age of Innocence (1920), from which several fictional characters have spilled over into these stories. The observation of…
For a number of years, chiefly in various locations and homes on the east bank of the Canal, a group of writers, almost all in one way or another associated with the University of Ottawa, have been meeting and sharing their writings with each other. Bridges: An Ottawa Anthology comprises recent work—poetry, short fiction, memoir—presenting…
Seymour Mayne is back with a new book, In Your Words: Translations from the Yiddish and the Hebrew. Featuring a cover painting by Sharon Katz, the collection offers translations from the work of Canadian Yiddish poets, Rachel Korn, Melech Ravitch, and J.I. Segal, and a moving sequence of poems by Abraham Sutzkever, one of the great poets of the Holocaust. Complementing…
by William Wilfred Campbell ISBN: 978-1-77081-228-4 pages: 104 size:6.5 x 9 inches paper William Wilfred Campbell (1860-1918), lover of Empire and instigator of the “War Among the Poets,” earned his living not by his pen but as a civil servant in Ottawa. While studying divinity in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he launched his literary career with the…
Cosmic Oratory by Regis; Ryerson Poetry Chapbook Series published by Ronald P. Frye and Co, Book Publishers, Toronto Canada. Poems by Twentieth Century Canadian poets, Cover art by Stewart Fanning. ANNUNCIATION I HAVE not been born into the world for nothing, To die unspoken like an insensate clod (If there is such a thing in…
Archibald Lampman was born on November 17, 1861, in Morpeth, Ont. Canadian poet of the Confederation group, whose most characteristic work sensitively records the feelings evoked by scenes and incidents of northern landscapes and seasons. Alcyone was prepared just before his death and published posthumously.
Lilian became a respected poet and short – story writer in her own right, and internationally famous in the early 1900s for her touching and evocative poem Over the Hills of Home, written as a tribute to her younger brother Frank who died in the First World War.
This new book of word sonnets by Seymour Mayne, one of the chief innovators of the form, is being published to highlight fifty years since the poet’s first collection of poetry was published in Montreal. Cusp: Word Sonnets is published in a limited illustrated signed edition and a regular trade paper edition. Review: “Seymour Mayne’s Cusp:…