 | Mimic Fires: Accounts of Early Long Poems on Canada Subjects: Canadian poetry (English) -- To 1867 -- History and criticism; Canadian poetry (English) -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Canada -- In literature; In this survey and analysis of long poems written about Canada between 1690 and 1900, D.M.R. Bentley establishes literary contexts for a greatly neglected period of Canadian literature. He also provides critical discussions of the poems, addresses larger questions of tradition and intertextuality, and demonstrates the existence of a continuity in Canadian writing from the colonial to the post-colonial period. |
