Donna Bennett and Russell M. Brown
Preface
Introduction
Saukamapee
- [Life among the Peigans]
Francis Brooke
- The History of Emily Montague
- Letter 1
- Letter 2 NEW
- Letter 10
- Letter 11
- Letter 49
- Letter 80
- Letter 123
- Letter 127
- Letter 131
-
Letter 169
Samuel Hearne
- From A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean
David Thompson
- Narrative of His Explorations in Western North America, 1784-1812
- [Nahathaway Indians]
- [Life Among the Nahathaways]
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
Catharine Parr Traill
- The Backwoods of Canada
-- Letter IX
-- Letter X
-- Letter XII
Susanna Moodie
- Roughing It in the
Bush
-- Introduction to the Third Edition
-- 1. A Visit to Grosse Isle
-- 2. QuebecNEW
-- 10. Brian, the Still-Hunter
-- 22. The Fire
-- 25. Adieu to the Woods
Charles Sangster
- The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay
- Sonnets Written in the Orillia
Woods
Isabella Valancy Crawford
- Malcolm's Katie: A Love Story
- Esther
- Canada to England
- The Canoe
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 the Ice-Roof
Bliss Carman
- Low Tide on Grand Pré
- In the Workshop
- Sappho LIII NEW
- Sappho LXXIV NEW
Sara Jeannette Duncan
- The Heir Apparent
Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)
- The Song My Paddle
Sings
- His Majesty the West Wind
- A Cry from an Indian Wife
- The Flight of the Crows
- Silhouette
- 'Through Time and Bitter Distance'
- The Lost Island
Archibald Lampman
- Heat
- The Frogs
- The Railway Station
- In November
- A Summer
Dream
- The City of the End of Things
- Voices of Earth
- Winter Evening
- To a Millionaire
Duncan Campbell Scott
- At the Cedars
- The Onondaga Madonna
- Watkwenies
- The Forsaken
- The Battle of Lundy's Lane
- To a Canadian Aviator Who Died for
His Country in France
Jessie Georgina Sime
- Munitions!
Stephen Leacock
- Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
-- The Marine Excursion of the Knights of Pythias
Nellie McClung
- The Elusive Vote: An Unvarnished Tale of September 21st, 1911
E.J.
Pratt
- The Shark
- Newfoundland
- The Prize Cat
- Come Away, Death
- The Truant
- Towards the Last Spike
Marjorie Pickthall
- The Bird in the Room
- Made in His Image
- Deborah NEW
- The Third Generation
Ethel Wilson
- The
Window
F.R. Scott
- The Canadian Authors Meet
- Overture NEW
- Lakeshore
- Laurentian Shield NEW
- W.L.M.K.
- All the Spikes but the Last
Harry Robinson
- Coyote Challenges God
A.J.M. Smith
- The Lonely Land
- Far West
- Sea
Cliff
- On Reading an Anthology of Popular Poetry
- The Wisdom of Old Jelly Roll
- To Jay Macpherson on her Book of Poems NEW
- News of the Phoenix NEW
Morley Callaghan
- Watching and Waiting
Earle Birney
- Vancouver Lights
- Mappemounde NEW
-
The Ebb Begins from Dream
- Pacific Door
- Bushed
- Can. Lit.
- El Greco: Espolio
- Buildings 2 NEW
Sinclair Ross
- The Runaway
A.M. Klein
- Reb Levi Yitschok Talks to God
- Heirloom
- Autobiographical NEW
- Portrait of the Poet as
Landscape
- Meditation upon Survival NEW
Dorothy Livesay
- Green Rain
- The Difference
- Day and Night
- The Three Emilys NEW
- Bartok and the Geranium
- On Looking into Henry Moore NEW
- The Sybil NEW
Anne Wilkinson
- The Great Winds
-
Theme and Variation NEW
- Easter Sketches, Montreal
- In June and Gentle Oven
- Lens NEW
- Nature Be Damned
Irving Layton
- The Birth of Tragedy
- The Cold Green Element
- The Fertile Muck
- Keine Lazarovitch 1870-1959
- Butterfly on Rock
- A Tall
Man Executes a Jig
- O Jerusalem NEW
Anne Marriott NEW
- The Wind Our Enemy
P.K. Page
- The Stenographers NEW
- Stories of Snow
- Photos of a Salt Mine
- Cry Ararat!
- Arras
- Evening Dance of the Grey Flies
- The Gold Sun
-
Kaleidoscope
- Unless the Eye Catch Fire
Margaret Avison
- The Butterfly
- Perspective
- Snow
- Tennis
- The Swimmer's Moment
- We the Poor Who Are Always with Us
- 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)
- For Steve McIntyre
- On the Flood Plain
- Grosse Isle
- Say the Names
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
- Poetics against the Angel of Death NEW
- Naked Poems
-- Suite I
-- Suite II
- The Making
of a Japanese Print
- Maureen Reading NEW
Robert Kroetsch
- Stone Hammer Poem NEW
- Seed Catalogue
Jay Macpherson NEW
- The Thread
- The Third Eye
- The Old Enchanter
- The Boatman
- The Anagogic Man
- The Fisherman
- A World of
Words
- A Lost Soul
- Visiting
Alice Munro
- The Progress of Love
Alden Nowlan
- Temptation
- Country Full of Christmas
- Canadian January Night
- The Broadcaster's Poem
- On the Barrens
Leonard Cohen
- You Have the Lovers
-
Suzanne Takes You Down
- Everybody Knows
- Anthem NEW
- A Thousand Kisses Deep
- Looking Through My Dreams
Rudy Wiebe
- Where Is the Voice Coming From?
George Bowering
- Against Description NEW
- Kerrisdale Elegy Two
Joy Kogawa
-
Obasan
- Where There's a Wall
- Road Building by Pick Axe
- Minerals from Stone
Carol Shields
- Hazel
Alistair MacLeod
- As Birds Bring Forth the Sun
Claire Harris
- August
- Black Sisyphus
- Conception of Winter
- To Dissipate
Grief
- No God Waits on Incense
John Newlove
- Four Small Scars
- The Double-Headed Snake
- Samuel Hearne in Wintertime
- Ride Off Any Horizon
- The Green Plain
Margaret Atwood
- This Is a Photograph of Me
- Progressive Insanities of a
Pioneer
- 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
- Orpheus (2)
- The
Line: Five Variations
- The Age of Lead
- Hello, Martians. Let Moby-Dick Explain NEW
Patrick Lane
- Because I Never Learned
- Stigmata
- Winter
-- Winter 1
-- Winter 22
-- Winter 35
-- Winter 40
- The Far Field
- For Gwendolyn MacEwen
- The
Sooke Potholes
- Scarify NEW
- Soft and Moist, Hard and Dry NEW
Dennis Lee
- Civil Elegy I NEW
- Sibelius Park
- The Coat
- When I Went Up to Rosedale
- Hunger
- Hiatus
- 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
- Homing
- Icarus
- Astonished -
- Pond
- Gneiss
- Forlorn NEW
- Angel of Extinction NEW
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
- The Cinnamon Peeler
- To a Sad Daughter
- The Medieval Coast
- Wells
Thomas King
- A Coyote Columbus Story
bpNichol
- The Martyrology
-- Book 1: 'The
Sorrows of Saint Orm'
-- Book 3, Section VIII
-- Book 5, Chain 8
- landscape (I)
- lament
Bronwen Wallace
- A Simple Poem for Virginia Woolf NEW
- The Woman in This Poem
- Joseph Macleod Daffodils
- 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
- Bone Flute Breathing
Lorna Crozier
- This One's for You
- Forms of Innocence
- Getting Pregnant
- On the Seventh Day
-
The Old Order
- At the Millstone
- The Sacrifice of Abraham
- The Sacrifice of Isaac
- Midnight Watch NEW
- The Mask NEW
Jane Urquhart
- The Drawing Master
Anne Carson
- Book of Isaiah
- TV Men: Hektor
Barbara Gowdy
- Presbyterian
Crosswalk
M.G. Vassanji
- Her Two Husbands
Guy Vanderhaeghe
- Man on Horseback
Rohinton Mistry
- Swimming Lessons
Dionne Brand
- No Language Is Neutral
-- Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater NEW
-- hard against the soul X
- Land to
Light On
-- I Have Been Losing Roads
-- Land to Light On: V
Marilyn Dumont NEW
- let the ponies out
- a bowl of smooth brown wood
- Letter to Sir John A. MacDonald
- house, broken
- will I, night
- this, is for the wives
- I wanted to treat them as we
would have treated buffalo
- these are wintering words
Erin Mouré
- Blindness
- Miss Chatelaine
- Seebe
- Dream of the Towns
- Amygdala
- Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person
-- VII From Garrison Creek I see the earth to the antipodes of the Universe . .
.
-- XX The Humber is pretty fabulous, really
-- XXXI If at times I claim flowers smile and rivers sing
Jan Zwicky
- Bill Evans: 'Here's That Rainy Day'
- Transparence
- Driving Northwest
- String Practice
- Robinson's Crossing
- Small Song: Prairie
NEW
- Small Song: Mozart NEW
- Song of Farewell NEW
Anne Michaels
- Lake of Two Rivers
- Flowers
- There Is No City That Does Not Dream
- Repairing the Octave NEW
- Ask Aloud NEW
George Elliott Clarke
-- The Adoration of Shelley
--- The
Argument
--- The River Pilgrim: A Letter
--- Rose Vinegar
--- Bees' Wings
--- Blank Sonnet
--- The Wisdom of Shelley
--- Each Moment Is Magnificent
- Primitivism
- Nu(is)ance
- Mortality Sonnet
Caroline Adderson NEW
- Shhh: 3 Stories about
Silence
Lisa Moore
- Craving
Michael Crummey NEW
- Cod (1)
- Cod (2)
- Bread
- Patience
- Watermark
- Getting the Marriage into Bed
- Keel
- After Image
Christian Bök
- Crystals
- Eunoia
-- Chapter O
- Vowels
-
The Nocturne of Orpheus
Michael Redhill
- The Flesh Collectors
Karen Solie NEW
- Sturgeon
- Gopher
- Chance
- Determinism
- Your Premiums Will Never Increase
- Tractor
- The World
- Via
Eden Robinson
- Queen of the
North
Ken Babstock
- Marsh Theatre
- Regenerative
- To Willow
- Essentialist
- The World's Hub
- Compatibilist
- Ledger NEW
Wayde Compton
- The Blue Road: A Fairy Tale
- The Reinventing Wheel
David Bezmozgis NEW
- Roman Berman,
Massage Therapist
Madeleine Thien
- Simple Recipes
Heather O'Neill NEW
- Messages in Bottles
Acknowledgements
Index
Instructor's Manual:
- Essay topics
- List of online, audio, and video resources
- Links to original manuscripts, maps, or contextual documents
- Documents to support students: 'How to Write about Literature' and 'Critical Approaches to Literature'
Donna Bennett and Russell M. Brown are retired faculty of the University of Toronto, Department of English.
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