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Honor Edgeworth (Paperback)
Kate Madeleine Bottomley; Series edited by Douglas Lochhead
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R1,402
Discovery Miles 14 020
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This light romance portrays in considerable detail the social life
of Ottawa in the post-Confederation years. The gossip of the
capital and the prevailing social customs strengthen the story of
Honor Edgeworth's courtship. It is a novel of manners with a happy
ending.
Of this novel of Canadian business life and village and city social
conditions in the early twentieth century, the author explains that
his object is 'to enlighten the public concerning life behind the
wicket and thus pave the way for the legitimate organization of
bankclerks into a fraternal association, for their financial and
social (including moral) betterment.'
In August of 1913, a young University of New Brunswick graduate set
out for Germany to study music at the renowned Royal Leipzig
Conservatory. Helen VanWart was a vivacious, optimistic girl, eager
to experience all that Europe had to offer. Her weekly letters home
to her family paint a portrait of Europe's last months of peace, a
time that, for Helen, passed all too quickly in classes, lessons,
and practice, practice, practice, interspersed with many concerts,
operas, and trips to such places as Dresden, Switzerland, and Rome.
Despite her daily hours of practice - often five or six - she kept
up an active social life, and her letters bring to life her
fellow-students and boarders in her Pension, and perhaps most
significantly, "Mr. Lochhead," a Canadian chemistry student about
whom she is unaccustomedly reticent The future Mrs. Lochhead,
indeed, was so immersed in her music and her friends that politics
rarely impinged upon her letters. As with so many others in Europe
and the British Empire, the outbreak of war appears to have taken
her utterly by surprise. Helen's letters are living social history,
a vibrant testament of a time now hard to imagine, the last year of
"Edwardian" innocence, and a portrait of a world that, both
musically and socially, had nothing backward-looking about it. The
future lay ahead and it was going to be golden.
Looking Into Trees is the latest collection from the pen of eminent
Canadian poet Douglas Lochhead. Drawing its inspiration from time
spent looking "into trees, between trees, around trees," behind the
poet's house, the collection evokes the wonderful mystery of trees
and the way they confront the contemplative viewer. For Lochhead,
the ever-changing landscape of trees, their shadows and lights,
reflects life itself, the great changes and the small details.
Lochhead presents looking into and between trees as a continuing
surprise; every hour, every second is different, as light changes
and wind moves, leading to reflection on the moods, events, and
phases of human life. Lochhead's human world is intimately
interwoven with its landscape. The work is illustrated with details
from paintings by Kenneth Lochhead, the poet's brother and one of
the Regina Five group of abstract painters who were so significant
to the development of Canada's fine arts tradition.
Love on the Marsh, a long poem in 100 stanzas, is described by
Lochhead as an extension of High Marsh Road and brother and sister
to it. The diary-like entries, a form to which Lochhead has
frequently returned over the years, can also be compared to his
work in The Panic Field. By turns earthy and etherial, a pilgrimage
through a landscape of grass and sky and tumultuous emotions, Love
on the Marsh revisits the High Marsh Road with a new eye and finds
in it the self-examining, self-discovering heart. Douglas Lochhead,
a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a life-member of the
League of Canadian Poets, was born in Guelph, Ontario in 1922, and
served as an infantry and artillery officer in the Canadian Army
during World War II.
Dealing in part with the people involved in the Red River Rebellion
of 1869-70, the novel is based on Begg's own experiences in the Red
River Settlement and describes the realities of pioneer life. 'Dot
It Down' was the nickname of Charles Mair, poet and member of the
Canada First Movement.
Robert Barr has been almost completely overlooked by critics and
anthologists of Canadian literature, in part because, although he
was educated in Canada, he spent most of his life in the United
States and England. However, since most of his serious novels are
either set in Canada or have some Canadian connection, Barr
deserves attention. The Measure of the Rule, originally published
in 1907, is the nearest he came to writing an autobiographical
novel. It concerns the Toronto Normal School and the experiences
there in the 1870s of a young man who undoubtedly is Barr himself.
In this novel, Barr is exorcising unhappy memories and is ironic,
even bitter, about the school's quality of education, the rigid
discipline observed by its staff and their indifference to their
students, and the sexual segregation practiced. A number of men
under whom Barr actually studied are vividly caricatured. As a
realistic study of Ontario's only central teacher-training
institution in the late nineteenth century, The Measure of the Rule
will appeal both to those interested in Canadian fiction of that
period and to those more concerned with the evolution of the system
of education established by Egerton Ryerson. Also included with
this reprint of the novel is an essay originally published in 1899
and entitled 'Literature in Canada.' In this essay, Barr elaborated
upon his opinions of the school system and its quality of
education.
Aside from Sam Slick, the book which gained Haliburton the greatest
notoriety was The Letter Bag of The Great Western; or, Life in a
Steamer, published in 1840. Much of this book was composed for the
diversion of the other passengers on Haliburton's steamship voyage
from Bristol to New York in 1839. The book's ostensible function
was the advertisement of the advantages of travel by steamship, but
few, after reading the passengers' accounts of their voyage, would,
if they took them seriously, ever venture off shore. The book's
principal sources of amusement - infirmities of the human body
(seasickness), the peculiarities of spelling and grammar that arise
from faulty or defective education, the cultural mores of other
races and lower classes, and the outrageous punning.
The Season-Ticket, published in 1860, is made up of a series of
articles previously contributed during 1859 and 1860 to the Dublin
University Magazine. Its quality of interest lies in its major
purpose: the programme of a thorough going British imperialist who
advocates "a three-fold policy for developing intercommunication
between the motherland and the colonies." In this work, Haliburton
proposed that Great Britain subsidize transatlantic steamers
between its ports and the colonies, complete the Intercolonial
Railway and continue it to Lake Superior, and provide a "safe,
easy, and expeditious route to Fraser's River on the Pacific."
Haliburton further argues for the substitution of a permanent
colonial council of appointees from the colonies in place of the
Colonial Office, and he raises the possibility of colonial
representation in the British parliament.
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The Advocate (Paperback)
Charles Heavysege; Edited by Douglas Lochhead
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R697
Discovery Miles 6 970
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The Advocate, an historical melodramatic romance in prose, which
makes use of English and French antagonisms in Lower Canada.
A five-act tragedy in blank verse. The play is founded upon the old
problem of an unnatural and ill-omened union between youth and age.
Charles Heavysege's chief and best-known work, the long-verse drama
and tragedy Saul, was published in Montreal in 1857. Coventry
Patmore, reviewing Saul in the North British Review, ranked it as
the greatest English poem published outside Great Britain.
Hawthorne, Emerson, and Longfellow were all enthusiastic in their
praise, and the play went into three editions. Saul is a drama of
135 scenes containing the remarkable character of the fallen angel
Malzah, who has been compared by critics to Shakespeare's Caliban.
Itis a powerful presentation of the tormented soul caught in a
world of order and universal degree. Its main interest is to be
found in the psychological frankness - Saul's recognition of his
demon resonates with the deeper implication of the recognition of
the doeppelganger - and in passages of sinewy verse written with a
directness that anticipates E.J. Pratt.
A book of pioneer life in Upper Canada, arranged in the form of a
story. The author spent five-sevenths of his life among the pioneer
settlers of Western Canada. The incidents in the story are taken
from the active life of the pioneers of Western Ontario, among whom
the author grew up. A keen observer, the reverend author has been
able to produce a faithful record of the hardships, trials and
successes of the hardy pioneers of the Niagara district, and all
that magnificent country lying between the Niagara River and Lake
Huron and Georgia Bay. It is needless to say, therefore, that the
book possesses much historic value as a picture of Canadian life in
the early days of this western peninsula. The book is one which
will be read with deep interest by those of the old pioneers who
remain, and ought to become one of the household treasures of the
descendants of those pioneers for many generations.
A Canadian love story about Robbie Smith, a 19-year-old mail
carrier travelling the old gravel roadway (now Highway 124) between
Cromaboo (Erin) and Gibbeline (Guelph). One day on his travels he
sees Miss Mary Paxton, an unwed lady, 14 years his senior. He falls
in love with her. And so begins our tale.
Originally published in 1887, this historical romance novel, set in
York, is a romance of the early days of Upper Canada.
"High Marsh Road," a finalist for the 1980 Governor General's
Award and a beautiful example of bookmaking, is now back in print.
"High Marsh Road" is a signficant step in the century-long artistic
tradition of the Tantramar region, begun by Charles G.D. Roberts
and continued by Alex Colville, John Thompson, and Lochhead
himself.
The book consists of 122 poems marking daily walks over the
windblown marsh. Along with minute particulars of the marsh itself,
its weather, and its birds and animals, "High Marsh Road" is an
intimate account of a man's exploration of nature and the self.
"Homage to Henri Alline and Other Poems" marks a new stage in the
long career of this renowned poet. The book consists of two long
poems flanking a collection of related short poems. At once austere
and rich, this book is a vintage offering from a poet at the height
of his powers.
Douglas Lochhead is one of Canada's finest poets. In celebration of
his eightieth birthday, Goose Lane Editions is releasing Weathers:
Poems New and Selected, a collection of the best of Lochhead's work
from the last fifteen years. Douglas Lochhead's poetic imagination
receives its greatest stimulus from what his senses tell him about
nature and other people, and his poetry overflows with energy.
Sharp observation of detail anchors his passionate sense of place;
subtle irony and masterful form barely contain his uncompromising
honesty and strong emotions; and his command of the poet's craft
guides his attacks on the boundaries of meaning. The contrast he
achieves between tightly controlled form and constantly moving,
dynamic imagery yields the clean, precise poetry that his readers
have valued so highly over his more than 50-year career. Lochhead
began his career in the 1940s, publishing his poems in literary
journals. His first book, The Heart is on Fire was published in
1959, and in the next two decades he published eight more books of
poetry. In 1980, his landmark collection High Marsh Road was
nominated for a Governor General's Award. In 1986, Goose Lane
Editions published Tiger in the Skull: New and Selected Poems,
1959-1986, Since that time, Douglas Lochhead has published four
major collections: Upper Cape Poems, a testament to his fascination
with the Tantramar Marsh; Homage to Henry Alline, a tribute to an
18th-century evangelist; Breakfast at Mel's, superbly crafted poems
about the magic of place, and the rewards of observation; and Cape
Enragé, poems written on the wild shore of the Bay of Fundy. In the
award-winning art book Dykelands, his austere nature poems
accompany Thaddeus Holownia's large-format photographs. He has also
published All Things Do Continue, Yes, Yes, Yes , and Black
Festival, a beautiful memorial to his wife. For Weathers, Douglas
Lochhead has collaborated with editor David Creelman, who teaches
Atlantic literature at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John.
Together, they have gathered the strongest works from Lochhead's
books, new poems published in literary journals, and previously
unpublished poems to create the quintessential collection of
Lochhead's writing.
This satirical and witty first novel is a high-spirited account of
the 1866 Fenian 'invasion' of Canada near Ridgeway. Adding spice to
the novel are the romances of the two leading men, a Toronto
professor and an American reporter, who become involved with
farmer's daughters.
Tiger in the Skull makes available for the first time in a single
volume the range, substance, and variety of Lochhead's work.
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