The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South

Biographies & Memoirs

Blassingame, John

Community & Culture

Oxford University Press, Canada

The Canadian Oxford school atlas

Reference

Oxford University Press (Canada)

Atlases & Maps

The new Canadian Oxford atlas

Miriam Waddington's career as a writer began in the 1940s. In the years since, she has produced a body of work that has made her one of the most widely read poets in Canada. Her ninth collection-the first since Driving Home in 1972-is about light and silence, about places, and, most importantly, about solitude without loneliness, space without emptiness, death without fear. Her verbal discipline, imagery, warmth, toughness, and humour; her multicultural sympathies; her optimism and honesty-all are qualities that make her poetry fresh and intimate.

The Price of Gold

Literature & Fiction

Waddington, Miriam

Poetry

This is the first annotated anthology of Canadian poetry and prose, from the eighteenth century to the present. Volume I contains the work of 40 writers. Some 200 pages are devoted to poetry and 350 pages to prose, which includes not only short fiction but five autobiographical pieces, eight essays of literary criticism, and a play. There are many cross-connections - in related subject matter, in the criticism and memoirs that reflect on other selections - so that the anthology offers a firm context for the study not only of individual writers but of the literary culture of Canada. With introductions to the writers and their works, and annotations.

An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English: Volume I

History & Criticism

The author of eight books of poetry, a novel, translations of classical writing, and travel sketches, Daryl Hine brings together in this selection the finest poems of a distinguished literary career. Though he left Canada in 1962, and has since lived in France and the United States, his impressive publications have always been highly regarded by the Canadian poetry community, and he has maintained close ties with his native country. Hine writes with wit, learning, and grace. In the worlds of John Hollander, 'There are very few poets as good as Daryl Hine, and almost none like him'.

Selected Poems

Hine, Daryl

This is the first annotated anthology of Canadian poetry and prose, from the eighteenth century to the present. Volume II contains extensive selections of works by some fifty writers, ranging from Sheila Watson (b. 1909) to bp Nichol (b. 1944). Besides a generous complement of poetry and short fiction, there are eight essays of literary criticism and one full-length play. As in Volume I. there are many cross-connections - in related subject matter, in the criticism that reflects on other selections - so that the anthology offers a firm context for the study not only of individual writers, but of the vital literary culture of contemporary English Canada. With introductions to the writers and their works, annotations, and a supplementary section: Poets for Further Reading.

An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English: Volume II

Canadian political thought

H.D. Forbes

Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald (1815-91) had a forty-seven year career in Parliament that permanently shaped the course of Canadian political life. Sir John A.; An Anecdotal Life of John A. Macdonald gives us the man behind the legend. Lively and revealing anecdotes about Sir John A.'s political and parliamentary life are set against stories of his private joys and sorrows-the death of his brother at the hands of a drunken servant; his rebellious youth; the illness of his beautiful first wife, and her addiction to opium; his courtship and second marriage; the tragedy of his only daughter, born with hydrocephalus; his womanizing; and his life-long battle with alcohol. Stories of patronage, of political campaigns, of loyal supporters and bitter opponents take readers through many of the major events of the nineteenth-century Canada, from the building of the CPR to the Riel Rebellions, to name only a few.

Sir John A.: An Anecdotal Life of John A. MacDonald

Historical

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