An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English

Preface
Introduction
Saukamapee:
[Life among the Peigans]
Francis Brooke:
From The History of Emily Montague
Samuel Hearne:
From A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean
David Thompson:
From Narrative of His Explorations in Western North America, 1784-1812
Oliver Goldsmith NEW!:
The Rising Village
John Franklin and Dr John Richardson:
From Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819, 20, 21, and 22
Anna Brownell Jameson:
From Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada
Thomas Chandler Haliburton:
The Trotting Horse
The Clockmaker
Catharine Parr Traill:
From The Backwoods of Canada
Susanna Moodie:
From Roughing It in the Bush
Charles Sangster:
From The St Lawrence and the Saguenay
From Sonnets Written in the Orillia Woods
Isabella Valancy Crawford (Newly annotated full text):
Esther
Canada to England
[Said] the Canoe
Malcolm's Katie
Charles G.D. Roberts:
Tantramar Revisited
The Mowing
In an Old Barn
The Flight of the Geese
The Skater
Going Over
As Down the Woodland Ways
Under Ice Roof
Bliss Carman:
The Eavesdropper
Low Tide on Grand Pré
Lord of My Heart's Elation
Morning in the Hills
The World Voice
Sara Jeannette Duncan:
From The Imperialist
Pauline Johnson:
His Majesty the West Wind
A Cry from an Indian Wife
The Flight of the Crows
The Song My Paddle Sings
Silhouette
Through Time and Bitter Distance
The Lost Island
Archibald Lampman:
The Railway Station
Heat
The Frogs
In November
The City of the End of Things
A Summer Dream
Voices of Earth
Winter Evening
To a Millionaire
At the Long Sault
Duncan Campbell Scott:
At the Cedars
The Onondaga Madonna
Watkwenies
Night Hymns on Lake Nipigon
The Forsaken
The Battle of Lundy's Lane
The Height of Land
To a Canadian Aviator Who Died for His Country in France
Labrie's Wife
J.G. Sime:
Munitions!
Nellie McClung NEW!:
The Elusive Vote
Stephen Leacock:
The Marine Excursion of the Knights of Pythias
L.M. Montgomery:
How Betty Sherman Won a Husband
Frederick Philip Grove:
Snow (1922)
Snow (1932)
E.J. Pratt:
The Shark
Newfoundland
Silences
The Prize Cat
Come Away, Death
The Truant
From Towards the Last Spike
Marjorie Pickthall:
The Sleep Seekers
The Bird in the Room
Made in His Image
The Third Generation
Ethel Wilson:
The Window
F.R. Scott:
The Canadian Authors Meet
Trans Canada
Lakeshore
Poetry
WLMK
All the Spikes but the Last
Harry Robinson:
Coyote Challenges God
Indian Doctor
A.J.M. Smith:
The Lonely Land
Far West
Sea Cliff
The Plot against Proteus
On Reading an Anthology of Popular Poetry
The Wisdom of Old Jelly Roll
Morley Callaghan:
Waiting and Watching
Earle Birney:
Vancouver Lights
Anglosaxon Street
The Ebb Begins from Dream
Pacific Door
Bushed
Can. Lit.
El Greco: Espolio
Buildings II
Sinclair Ross:
The Runaway
A.M. Klein:
Reb Levi Yitschok Talks to God
Heirloom
The Rocking Chair
Political Meeting
Portrait of the Poet as Landscape
Autobiographical
Sheila Watson:
And the Four Animals
Dorothy Livesay:
Green Rain
The Difference
Day and Night
Bartok and the Geranium
The Secret Doctrine of Women
The Three Emilys
The Artefacts: West Coast
Anne Wilkinson:
The Great Winds
Winter Sketch, Rockcliffe, Ottawa
Easter Sketches, Montreal
In June and Gentle Oven
Nature Be Damned
Irving Layton:
The Birth of Tragedy
The Cold Green Element
The Fertile Muck
Whatever Else, Poetry Is Freedom
Keine Lazarovitch
Butterfly on Rock
A Tall Man Executes a Jig
PK Page:
Stories of Snow
Photos of a Salt Mine
Arras
Cry Ararat!
Evening Dance of the Grey Flies
The Gold Sun
Poor Bird
Kaleidoscope
Unless the Eye Catch Fire
Margaret Avison:
The Butterfly
Neverness
Perspective
Snow
Butterfly Bones; or Sonnet against Sonnet
Tennis
The Swimmer's Moment
We the Poor Who Are Always with Us
Job: Word and Action
Poetry Is
Al Purdy:
The Country North of Belleville
Trees at the Arctic Circle
Wilderness Gothic
Lament for the Dorsets
At the Quinte Hotel
Roblin's Mills (2)
Elegy for a Grandfather
For Steve McIntyre
On the Flood Plain
Grosse Isle
Say the Names
Raymond Souster:
The Penny Flute
At Split Rock Falls
Get the Poem Outdoors
Queen Anne's Lace
Like the Last Patch of Snow
Trying One on for Size
Mavis Gallant:
Varieties of Exile
Margaret Laurence:
To Set Our House in Order
James Reaney:
The School Globe
The Lost Child
The Alphabet
Starling with a Split Tongue
Phyllis Webb:
Marvell's Garden
From Naked Poems
Suite I
Suite II
Spots of Blood
I Daniel
The Making of a Japanese Print
Robert Kroetsch NEW!:
F.P. Grove: The Finding
Seed Catalogue
Timothy Findley:
Dreams
Alice Munro:
The Progress of Love
Mordecai Richler:
Playing Ball on Hampstead Heath
Alden Nowlan:
Temptation
Country Full of Christmas
Canadian January Night
The Broadcaster's Poem
On the Barrens
Leonard Cohen:
You Have the Lovers
Suzanne
From Book of Mercy
In the Eyes of Men
It is All Around Me
Holy is Your Name
Everybody Knows
Closing Time
Thousand Kisses Deep
The Truth of the Line
Looking Through My Dreams
Rudy Wiebe:
Where Is the Voice Coming from
George Bowering:
Grandfather
From Kerrisdale Elegies
Elegy Two
The Great Local Poem
From Pictures
Prodigal (with Angela Bowering)
Joy Kogawa:
Obasan
Where there's a Wall
Road Building by Pick Axe
Minerals from Stone
Carol Shields:
Hazel
Claire Harris NEW!:
August
Black Sisyphus
Conception of Winter
To Dissipate Grief
No God Waits on Incense
Alistair MacLeod:
As Birds Bring Forth the Sun
Jack Hodgins:
The Crossing
John Newlove:
Four Small Scars
The Double-Headed Snake
Samuel Hearn in Wintertime
Ride off Any Horizon
The Green Plain
Like an Eel
Margaret Atwood:
This Is a Photograph of Me
Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer
From The Journals of Susanna Moodie
Disembarking at Quebec
Further Arrivals
Death of a Young Son by Drowning
Dream 2: Brian the Still Hunter
Thoughts from Underground
Tricks with Mirrors
Siren Song
Spelling
Strawberries
Orpheus
The Line
The Age of Lead
Patrick Lane:
Because I Never Learned
Stigmata
The Long Coyote Line
CPR Station - Winnipeg
Weasel
From Winter
Winter 1
Winter 4
Winter 22
Winter 33
Winter 35
Winter 40
Winter 42
The Far Field
Cut-throat
The Spoon
For Gwendolyn MacEwen
The Sooke Potholes
Dennis Lee:
Sibelius Park
The Coat
Summer Song
When I Went Up to Rosedale
The Gods
Hunger
hiatus
desaparecidos
wordly
tale
Fred Wah:
Waiting for Saskatchewan
From Diamond Grill
Maria Campbell:
Jacob
Gwendolyn MacEwen:
Icarus
Manzini; Escape Artist
The Portage
Dark Pines under Water
The Real Enemies
The Death of the Loch Ness Monster
Polaris
Don McKay:
Kestrels
Twinflower
Short Fat Flicks
To Danceland
Homing
Icarus
Astonished
Petrified
Pond
Varves
Gneiss
Some Last Requests
Daphne Marlatt:
Imagine a Town
Coming Home
Winter/Rice/Tea Strain
Listen
(Is Love Enough?)
Michael Ondaatje:
The Time Around Scars
Letters & Other Worlds
Pig Glass
Light
Sally Chisum / Last Words on Billy the Kid. 4 A.M.
The Cinnamon Peeler
Lunch Conversation
To a Sad Daughter
The Medieval Coast
Wells
Thomas King:
A Coyote Columbus Story
bpNichol:
From The Martyrology 1972-?
From Book 1
From Book 3
From Book 5
landscape: I
lament
Bronwen Wallace:
The Woman in This Poem
Joseph Macleod Daffodils
Testimonies
The Watermelon Incident
Songbirds and Hurtin' Songs
An Easy Life
Robert Bringhurst:
Essay on Adam
Leda and the Swan
These Poems, She Said
The Reader
Conversations with a Toad
Bone Breathing Flute
Lorna Crozier:
This One's for You
Poem about Nothing
Forms of Innocence
Getting Pregnant
On the Seventh Day
The Old Order
At the Millstone
From A Saving Grace
Two Eternal Things
Wilderness
The Sacrifice of Abraham
The Sacrifice of Isaac
Ice Fog
My Last Erotic Poem
Jane Urquhart:
The Drawing Master
Anne Carson:
Short Talk on Rectification
Short Talk on Who You Are
Book of Isaiah
TV Men: Hektor
Barbara Gowdy:
Presbyterian Crosswalk
M.G. Vassanji NEW!:
Her Two Husbands
Guy Vanderhaeghe:
Man on Horseback
Rohinton Mistry:
Swimming Lessons
Dionne Brand:
Hard against the Soul
I Have Been Losing Roads
Land to Light On
From Thirsty:
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Erin Moure:
Blindness
Miss Chatelaine
Seebe
Dream of the Towns
Amygdala
14 Descriptions of Trees
From Garrison Creek I See the Earth to the Antipodes of the Universe
The Humber is Pretty Fabulous, Really
If at Times I Claim Flowers Smile and Rivers Sing
Jan Zwicky:
The New Room
Bill Evans: 'Here's That Rainy Day'
Transparence
Driving Northwest
String Practice
Robinson's Crossing
Study: North
Anne Michaels:
Lake of Two Rivers
Flowers
There Is No City That Does Not Dream
Ice House
Reparing the Octave
George Elliot Clarke:
The Argument
The River Pilgrim: A Letter
Rose Vinegar
Bees' Wings
Blank Sonnet
The Wisdom of Shelley
Each Moment Is Magnificent
Primitivism
The Killing
Nu(is)ance
IX/XI
Mortality Sonnet
Lisa Moore NEW!:
Craving
Christian Bök NEW!:
Crystals
From Eunoia
Chapter O
Vowels
Michael Redhill:
The Flesh Collectors
Eden Robinson NEW!:
Queen of the North
Ken Babstock NEW!:
In Brendan's Boat
Montana Nocturne
Marsh Theatre
Regenerative
To Willow
Essentialist
The World's Hub
Compatibilist
Wayde Compton NEW!:
The Blue Road
The Reinventing Wheel
Madeline Thien NEW!:
Dispatch
Acknowledgments
Name-Title Index

Donna Bennett and Russell M. Brown are emeritus members of the University of Toronto, Department of English.

Special Features

• Diverse selections. Outstanding works by writers of a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds ensure that students are exposed to a range of literature that reflects Canada's diversity.
• Essential background information. Selections are supported by thoroughly updated detailed headnotes that place the life and work of each author in context. Brief essays on genres and historical events that influenced this country's writers, as well as an introductory overview of Canadian literature, help students develop an informed appreciation of the selections.
• Flexible approach. Instructors who teach thematically will find a wealth of selections that reflect common topics in Canadian literature such as identity, contact across cultures, fragmentation, and mobility.
• Indispensable learning aids. Comprehensive annotations throughout empower students to read and understand the selections on their own.

• NEW! New selections include Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Rising Village', the annotated full text of Isabella Valancy Crawford's 'Malcolm's Katie', and Robert Kroetsch's 'Seed Catalogue'.
• NEW! Updated and expanded selections from Margaret Avision, Leonard Cohen, Patrick Lane, Daphne Marlatt, Don McKay, and Dionne Brand.
• NEW! Newly added authors include Nellie McClung, Claire Harris, M.G. Vassanji, Lisa Moore, Christian Bök, Eden Robinson, Wayde Compton, Ken Babstock, and Madeleine Thien.