Author: D. M. R. Bentley

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780773512009

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.