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Ca N a D I a N Lite Rat U Re in English Third Edition An Anthology of Ca n a d i a n Lite rat u re in English ' Edited by Donna Bennett and Russell Brown UNIVERSITY PRESS Contents PREFACE xiii INTRODUCTION xvii SAUKAMAPEE i THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON 94 [Life among the Peigans] 2 The Trotting Horse 96 The Clockmaker 98 FRANCIS BROOKE 10 From The History of Emily Montague CATHARINE PARR TRAILL 101 Letter I n From The Backwoods of Canada Letter 10 12 Letter IX 102 Letter 11 14 Letter X 107 Letter 49 19 Letter 80 20 SUSANNA MOODIE 108 Letter 123 22 From Roughing It in the Bush Letter 127 24 Introduction to the Third Edition no Letter 131 24 1. A Visit to Grosse Isle 112 Letter 169 26 8. Uncle Joe and His Family 117 9. Brian, The Still-Hunter 129 SAMUEL HEARNE 27 22. The Fire 135 From A Journey from Prince ofWales's Fort 25. Adieu to the Woods 139 in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean 2 CHARLES SANGSTER 140 DAVID THOMPSON 37 From The St Lawrence and the Saguenay 142 From Narrative of His Explorations in From Sonnets Written in the Orillia Woods 145 Western North America, 1784-1812 [Nahathaway Indians] 38 ISABELLA VALANCY CRAWFORD 146 [Life Among the Nahathaways] 42 Malcolm's Katie: A Love Story 149 Esther 187 OLIVER GOLDSMITH 50 Canada to England 188 The Rising Village 51 Said the Canoe 190 JOHN FRANKLIN AND CHARLES G.D. ROBERTS 192 DR JOHN RICHARDSON 65 Tantramar Revisited 194 From Narrative of a Journey to the Shores The Mowing 196 of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819, 20, 21 In an Old Barn 196 and 22 67 The Flight of the Geese 197 The Skater 197 ANNA BROWNELL JAMESON 84 Going Over 198 From Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in As Down the Woodland Ways 199 Canada 87 ..:,.. Under the Ice-Roof 200 vi I Contents BLISS CARMAN 206 STEPHEN LEACOCK 293 The Eavesdropper 207 The Marine Excursion of the Knights Low Tide on Grand Pre 208 : • ' ' of'Pythias 294 Lord of My Heart's Elation 209 Morning in the Hills 210 L.M. MONTGOMERY 307 The World Voice 211 How Betty Sherman Won a Husband 309 SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN 2: FREDERICK PHILIP GROVE 315 From The Imperialist Snow (1922) 317 Chapter II 214 Snow '(1932) 335 Chapter III 219 E.J.PRATT 341 E. PAULINE JOHNSON 225 The Shark 343 "'"'''' The Song My Paddle Sings 226 Newfoundland 344 His Majesty the West Wind 228 Silences 346 A Cry from an Indian Wife 228 The Prize Cat 348 The Flight of the Crows 230 Come Away, Death 349 Silhouette 231 The Truant 351 'Through Time and Bitter Distance' 232 Towards the Last Spike 356 The Lost Island 233 MARJORIE PICKTHALL 384 ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN 235 The Sleep-Seekers 385 Heats 236 The Bird in the Room 386 ' The Frogs 238 Made in His Image 387 ,' The Railway Station 240 The Third Generation 387 In November 241 i A Summer Dream 242 The City of the End of Things 243 ETHEL,WILSON 395, Voices of Earth 245 The Window.,^396^. ,_.i, ... <^ j \,,,> • Winter Evening 245 .•"'.' To ^.Millionaire 246 ER. SCOTT 406- -- ><O?i /« : •- At.,the Long Sault: May, 1660 246 The CanadianjAuthprs^Meet 407 Trans Canada., 408 ;> .. : -..••. • DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT 249 Lakeshore 409,;. ,,. .,i:c.U,'- At the Cedars 251 Poetry ,4111,.,, ,..iV .• , _ i,,,,^,,,,; The Onondaga Madonna 253 W.L.M.K. 412 Watkwenies 253 All the Spikes But the •Last^iji JO'"; H Night Hymns on Lake Nipigon 254 The Forsaken 255 HARRY ROBINSON 414 The Battle of Lundy's Lane-258- Coyote Challenges God'. f^ifAJj':'^(-.'A'-i The Height of Land 260 • Indian Doctor; j.419 i ..'.•'•. !.fiA'-iO!i; ' To a Canadian Aviator Who Died for - vV v-M,' His Country in France 265 A.J.M. SMITH' "425 ••' !- \:P.-wM\ Labrie'sWife 266 The Lonely Land 427 t^1 ' Far West 428 JESSIE GEORGINA SIME 276 Sea Ciiff' '42.9';• ''•:•••" !.-• !'*'':''/O ;v/\'\ Munitions! {278 . ' ; . : Business as'Usual: 1946'~'1-'43bi^v.iV Fear as Normal: 1954 430 ":; ' NELLIE McCLUNG 283 On Reading an Anthology of The Elusive Vote: An Unvarnished Tale of Popular Poetry 431 September 21st, 1911 285 The Wisdom of Old Jelly Roll 432 Contents MORLEY CALLAGHAN 432 P.K. PAGE 516 Watching and Waiting 434 Stories of Snow 518 Photos of a Salt Mine 519 EARLEBIRNEY 439 Cry Ararat! 521 Vancouver Lights 440 Evening Dance of the Grey Flies 524 Anglosaxon Street 441 Arras 525 The Ebb Begins from Dream 443 The Gold Sun 526 Pacific Door 445 Poor Bird 527 Bushed 446 Kaleidoscope 529 Can. Lit. 447 Unless the Eye Catch Fire 531 El Greco: Espolio 448 Newfoundland 449 MARGARET AVISON 547 The Butterfly 548 SINCLAIR ROSS 449 Neverness 549 The Runaway 451 Perspective 551 Snow 552 A.M. KLEIN 462 Butterfly Bones; or Sonnet Against Sonnets 553 Reb Levi Yitschok Talks to God 464 Tennis 553 Heirloom 446 The Swimmer's Moment 554 The Rocking Chair 467 We the Poor Who Are Always with Us 554 Political Meeting 468 Job: Word and Action 555 Portrait of the Poet as Landscape 469 Poetry Is 565 Autobiographical 475 ALPURDY 567 SHEILA WATSON 478 The Country North of Belleville 569 And the Four Animals 480 Trees at the Arctic Circle 571 Wilderness Gothic 573 DOROTHY LIVESAY 481 Lament for the Dorsets 574 Green Rain 483 At the Quinte Hotel 576 The Difference 483 Roblin's Mills (2) 578 Day and Night 484 Elegy for a Grandfather [1986] 580 Bartok and the Geranium 489 For Steve Mclntyre 581 The Secret Doctrine of Women 490 On the Flood Plain 582 The Artefacts: West Coast 492 Grosse Isle 584 Say the Names 585 ANNE WILKINSON 495 The Great Winds 496 '•• RAYMOND SOUSTER 587 Winter Sketch, Rockcliffe, Ottawa 497 The Penny Flute 588 Easter Sketches, Montreal 498 At Split Rock Falls 589 In June and Gentle Oven 500 Like the Last Patch of Snow 589 Nature Be Damned 501 Get the Poem Outdoors 590 : Queen Anne's Lace 590 IRVING LAYTON 504 Trying One on for Size 591 The Birth of Tragedy 506 The Cold'Green Element 507 MAVIS GALLANT 593 The Fertile Muck 508 Varieties of Exile 594 Whatever Else Poetry Is Freedom 509 Keine Lazarovitch 1870-1959 511 Butterfly on Rock 512 MARGARET LAURENCE 608 A Tall Man Executes a Jig 512 To Set Our House in Order 609 viii Contents JAMES REANEY 620 GEORGE BOWERING; 740 ,; The School Globe 622 Grandfather 742 . ; •.:, :\:'••• '.• ::• The Lost Child 623 From Kerrisdale Elegies The Alphabet 624 Elegy Two 744 .. .; MZ :. :* > Starling with a Split Tongue 626 The Great Local Poem 748 , ' ....... From 'Pictures' . ,,^ ... ... , PHYLLIS WEBB 628 Prodigal (with Angela Bowering); ,749 Marvell's Garden 629 i From Naked Poems JOYKOGAWA 750 Suite I 631 Obasan 752 . , Suite II 633 Where There's a Wall 758. Spots of Blood 635 Road Building by Pick Axe „ 758 I Daniel 636 Minerals from Stone 761 The Making of a Japanese Print 640 CAROL SHIELDS 762 '.1 ROBERT KROETSCH 645 Hazel 764 F.P. Grove: The Finding 647 Seed Catalogue 649 ALISTAIR MacLEOD 776 "! ': As Birds Bring Forth the Sun 777 TIMOTHY FINDLEY 665 Dreams 667 CLAIRE HARRIS 783 August 784 ALICE MUNRO 681 Black Sisyph'us 785 The Progress of Love 683 Conception of Winter 786 To Dissipate Grief 787 MORDECAI RICHLER 702 No God Waits on Incense 789" Playing Ball on Hampstead Heath 704 JACKHODGINS 790 ALDENNOWLAN 712 The Crossing 79i' Temptation 713 Country Full of Christmas 714 JOHNNEWLOVE 798" ' Canadian January Night 714 • Four Small Scars 799 * * The Broadcaster's Poem 715 The Double-Headed Snake- 800• • On the Barrens 716 • • : Samuel Hearrie in'"Wintertirrie 801 Ride Off Any Horizon 803 ; LEONARD COHEN 718 The Green Plain 807 You Have the Lovers 720 Suzanne 722 , . , ... • MARGARET ATWOOD 816n"V >:-• :l From Book of Mercy This Is aPhotograph ofMe' 814 ihv>,\?. v In the Eyes of Men . 723. ; Progressive Insanities of a-Pioheer:T:I8i5J ' It Is All Around Me 723 From The Journals of Susanna Moodiei.s. :•.,: Holy Is Your Name. 724 . Disembarking at Quebec *8i8v! -..ci •? Everybody Knows 724 . Further Arrivals 819 Closing Time 726 i.: ,.: Death of a Young Son by.'Drowning 820.; i Thousand Kisses Deep 727 Dream 2: Brian the Still-Hunter r 82i 'the truth of the line' 730 Thoughts from Underground..822; Looking Through My Dreams 731 Tricks with Mirrors 823V :\ ;:•['. ••.':,i-i-: • Siren Song: 826 ;.• •>•! . < \ r ;iH .•.'!.; •;•.,; • RUDYWIEBE 732 Spelling 827;; ,,._•,...... -ji. ii-:ii'..!•;;••• .•„.: Where Is the Voice Coming From? 1734 • Orpheus (2) 828 AI> ,: „ :• .-.,, •• • Contents The Line: Five Variations 829 ' / . •; " DONMcKAY 904 ,. The Age of Lead 832 • . Kestrels 906. :•,. Twinflower 907 PATRICK LANE 842 Short Fat Flicks 908 : Because I Never Learned 844 To Danceland :9io • . • ; Stigmata 844 Homing 911 The Long Coyote Line 845 Icarus 912 . CPR Station—Winnipeg 846 Astonished— 914 Weasel 847 Petrified— 915 From Winter 1990 Pond 915 Winter 1 847 Varves 917 Winter 4 848 Gneiss 917 Winter 22 849 Some Last Requests 918 Winter 33 849 Winter 35 849 DAPHNE MARLATT 920 1 Winter 40 850 Imagine: a town 922 Winter 42 851 coming home 923 The Far Field 851 winter/ rice/ tea strain 923 .. Cut-throat 853 listen 925 The Spoon 853 (is love enough?) 927 For'Gwendolyn MacEwen 854 The Sooke Potholes 855 MICHAEL ONDAATJE 928 The Time Around Scars 930 Letters & Other Worlds 931 DENNIS LEE 857 Pig Glass 934 . Sibelius Park 859 Light 935 ... The Coat 861 : Sally Chisum/Last Words on Billy the Kid. When I Went Up to Rosedale 861 4 A.M.
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