- Hardcover: 477 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press; First Canadian Edition edition (1982)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0195403967
- ISBN-13: 978-0195403961
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.7 x 3.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 839 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #530,656 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An impressive selection of some of the best work of Canadian poets and Atwood's brilliant introductory survey of Canadian poetry make this an excellent textbook choice.
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Author of more than 40 books, Margaret Atwood has won as many awards, including the Union Poetry Prize (Chicago), the Bess Hoskins Prize (Chicago), the Radcliffe Graduate Medal, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Welsh Arts Council International Writers Prize, the Los Angeles Times Fiction Writers Award, the Ritz Hemingway Prize (Paris), the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best Science Fiction, the John Hughes Prize of the Welsh Development Board, and a Centennial Medal from Harvard University.Her work has been translated into more than sixteen languages. Robert Weaver, now retired from his 30-year career as executive producer of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation literary radio show "Anthology", has edited more than a dozen anthologies.
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Origins and Development of English Canadian Verse, Aug 11 2009
By M. Bastos - Published on Amazon.com
Published for the first time in 1982 this volume is a reference to those interested in exploring the history of English Canadian poetry and culture for the first time. You may not be impressed by the aesthetic of the early Canadian poets but their human message remains powerful, and documents a far less known side of the growth of the North American identity. Margaret Atwood's New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English is one of the rare gateways available to directly access most of these texts.
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Drear prairies of mediocrity, Aug 2 2011
By Simon G. Barrett - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English (Paperback)
Unlike your other reviewer, I found the early poems (pre-20th century - including Oliver Goldsmith!) much the best. I'm tempted to say nothing sang, though I suppose Beginning (p295) was worthy of minor Roethke (what am I saying? all Roethke is minor!); for the rest it's the bland leading the bland, as earth-bound as a wounded snow-goose, until we get to the children of the 40s, when it livens up appreciably. That's the early 40s; by the late 40s (her 'probable chestnut-producers of the future'(!) - she's kidding herself and she knows) she loses it completely. Attempts at satire or social comment which might have added spice (Ichthycide, Foreign Aid, Politics, America) are clunky. And a Canadian of all people should not be writing décolletée as décolletaged!! Unless there is some obscure ironic intent - but irony is sparse in this well-intentioned, nay pious volume (and the other eight words of French in the poem are unexceptionable)To be asked to update an Oxford is both an honour and an intolerable burden and we feel her pain. My strictures don't extend to her own work, though it is by her prose and prose poems, especially The Tent (wrongly categorised, in my view, as fiction - to boost sales?) that we shall remember her. Atwood's own Marrying the Hangman is the outstanding piece here. (Is it poetry though?!)
Memo to anthologists: there are no 'great Canadian poems'; there are only great poems. I'd have included Phyllis Gotlieb's marvellous versions of Villon, though as hybrids of medieval France and Yiddishkeyt there's nothing Canadian about them. Spare us from collections of the merely 'representative'!
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