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The bush garden: Essays on the Canadian imagination [Paperback]

Northrop Frye (Author)

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Bush Garden pursues that elusive thing, Canadian culture. Subtitled Essays on the Canadian Imagination, this collection of Frye's writings from 1943 to 1969 focuses on poetry in English. (The exceptions are three short essays about Canadian painters and one on folk songs.) Much of the book consists of a decade's worth of surveys of Canadian poetry published originally in the University of Toronto Quarterly. These yearly reviews were "essential field work," Frye tells us, for Anatomy of Criticism, his monumental contribution to 20th-century literary theory. Though one is used to thinking of his great influences as William Blake and the King James Bible, in Bush Garden Frye reveals that contemporary Canadian poets also had a significant impact on his work and that he was "fascinated by the echoes and ripples of a great mythopoetic age [that] kept moving through Canadian poetry." Frye "pilfered" his title from Margaret Atwood's The Journals of Susanna Moodie, a book of poems inspired in turn by the 19th-century homesteader and author of the Canadian classic Roughing It in the Bush. Frye locates the tension in the phrase "Bush Garden" between a looming wilderness in the north ("The Wordsworth who saw nature as exquisitely fitted to the human mind would be lost in Canada") and an equally intimidating presence to the south ("What is resented [is that] if the United States did annex Canada it would notice nothing except an increase in natural resources"). In prose that is clear-headed and unsentimental, Bush Garden goes earnestly, and a bit skeptically, in search of the Canadian national soul. Along the way, Frye demonstrates a wryly self-deprecating and characteristically Canadian wit, for example referring to himself as "the great white whale of Canadian criticism." Like A.J.M. Smith's landmark anthology The Book of Canadian Poetry, on which Frye heaps considerable praise, Bush Garden itself "unconsciously proves the existence of a definable Canadian genius which is ... for all its echoes and imitations and second-hand ideas, peculiarly our own." --Russell Prather --This text refers to the Unbound edition.

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Originally published by Anansi in 1971, this attractive new edition of Frye's timeless essays on literature and painting features an introduction by Canadian literature scholar Linda Hutcheon.
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