Selected Poetry and Critical Prose Charles G.D. Roberts

Published by University of Toronto Press 1974

Selected Poetry and Critical Prose Charles G.D. Roberts

Edited by: William Keith and Douglas Lochhead
With contributions by: William Keith

In the series Heritage

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487580285

Overview
Contents

About this book

The purpose of this selection of critical prose and 118 chronologically arranged poems is to make available to students of Canadian literature the main materials upon which a considered appreciation of Roberts' writing can be based.

Author / Editor information

Keith William :

William J. Keith, who was born and brought up in England, is Professor Emeritus of English at University College, University of Toronto. His is the author of Richard Jefferies: A Critical Study and Charles G.D. Roberts, and has edited Charles G.D. Roberts: Selected Poetry and Critical Prose.Lochhead Douglas :

Douglas Lochhead (1922-2011) was a professor emeritus of Mount Allison University.
Keith William :

William J. Keith, who was born and brought up in England, is Professor Emeritus of English at University College, University of Toronto. His is the author of Richard Jefferies: A Critical Study and Charles G.D. Roberts, and has edited Charles G.D. Roberts: Selected Poetry and Critical Prose.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
POETRY
Orion and Other Poems
Orion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
Epistle to W. Bliss Carman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Dedication Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
In Divers Tones
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Actiæon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
In the Afternoon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
The Pipes of Pan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
To Fredericton in May-Time Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
In September Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
A Serenade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Rain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
The Tantramar Revisited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
On the Creek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
The Sower Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
The Potato Harvest Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
Tides Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Consolation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
The Footpath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Liberty (From the French of Louis Honore Frechette) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Birch and Paddle (To Bliss Carman) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
An Ode for the Canadian Confederacy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
The Quelling of the Moose (A Melicite Legend) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
The Departing of Clote Scarp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
The Poet is Bidden to Manhattan Island Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
Ave: An Ode for the Centenary of the Birth of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Songs of the Common Day
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The Furrow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
The Waking Earth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
The Cow Pasture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
When Milking-Time is Done Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Frogs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
The Salt Flats Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
The Pea-Fields Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
The Mowing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
Burnt Lands Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
The Clearing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Buckwheat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
The Oat-Threshing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
The Autumn Thistles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
The Pumpkins in the Corn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
The Winter Fields Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
In an Old Barn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Midwinter Thaw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
The Flight of the Geese Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
In the Wide Awe and Wisdom of the Night Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
The Herring Weir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
Blomidon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
O Solitary of the Austere Sky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Marsyas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
Severance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Epitaph for a Sailor Buried Ashore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
The Silver Thaw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
The Lily of the Valley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
The Wild-Rose Thicket Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Grey Rocks and Greyer Sea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
New Year's Eve (After the French of Frechette) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
How the Mohawks Set Out for Medoctec Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
The Wood Frolic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
The Book of the Native
Where the Cattle Come to Drink Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
An Epitaph for a Husbandman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
The Stillness of the Frost Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
A Child's Prayer at Evening Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
The Frosted Pane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
The Brook in February Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
Beside the Winter Sea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
The Trout Brook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
Butterflies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
An August Wood-Road Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
The Lone Wharf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
Twilight on Sixth Avenue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
New York Nocturnes and Other Poems
Presence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
In a City Room Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
A Nocturne of Consecration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
An Evening Communion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Beyond the Tops of Time Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
At Tide Water Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
The Falling Leaves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
The Solitary Woodsman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
Ice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Ascription Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Poems
The Skater Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
On the Elevated Railroad at 110th Street Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
The Flocks of Spring Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
Brooklyn Bridge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
At the Drinking Fountain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
The Farmer's Winter Morning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
In the Barn-Yard's Southerly Corner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
The Logs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
The Book of the Rose
The Fear of Love Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
The Native Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
Child of the Infinite Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
Lines for an Omar Punch-Bowl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
The Aim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
New Poems
'The Unknown City' Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
O Earth, Sufficing All Our Needs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Monition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
All Night the Lone Cicada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
From the High Window of Your Room Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
The Hour of Most Desire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
The Stream Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
Going Over Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
The Vagrant of Time
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In the Night Watches Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
Hath Hope Kept Vigil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
Epitaph Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Spring Breaks in Foam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
Philander's Song (From 'The Sprightly Pilgrim') Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
The Iceberg and Other Poems
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Taormina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Presences Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
The Squatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Westcock Hill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Spirit of Beauty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Quebec, 1757 (From the French of Philippe Aubert de Gaspe) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
To a Certain Mystic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
Canada Speaks of Britain
Peace with Dishonour Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Two Rivers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
Twilight over Shaugamauk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
Critical Prose
The Beginnings of a Canadian Literature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
The Outlook for Literature: Acadia's Field for Poetry, History and Romance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	260
Introduction to Poems of Wild Life Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Wordsworth's Poetry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
The Poetry of Nature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
Shelley's Adonais Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	282
A Note on Modernism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	296
From the Prefatory Note to Selected Poems Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	302
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Index of Poems Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Copyright year: 1974
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 368

eBook

Published: December 15, 1974
ISBN: 9781487580285