Author: Wilson MacDonald

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Published: 2015-07-09

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9781331056829

Excerpt from Song of the Prairie Land: And Other Poems I first met Wilson MacDonald in 1911. I had come across a remarkable poem, "The Shame of Goderich," of considerable length, in a country paper. I was impressed with its power, its gift of expression, its originality, its humanitarianism. It seemed to be the shame of Toronto that it should not be more widely known. Of course there was difficulty in getting it into a Toronto paper. Its length was against it. So was its quality. Newspapers will print doggerel by the yard, but as a rule their columns are closed to good poetry. However, "The Shame of Goderich" duly appeared, signed "Frederick Maclean." One day subsequently a dark romantic figure appeared at my office door. I thought at once of Kyrle Bellew in the Apothecary scene in "Romeo and Juliet," the only actor I ever saw do it justice. Here was the same slight, lithe, graceful Italian figure, the same dark eyes and olive complexion, the same strange inscrutable smile of the shy but friendly soul. "I am Wilson MacDonald," spoke the stranger. That conveyed nothing. "Yes?" was the non-commital editorial response. "I am Frederick Maclean," was the further venture, and after that the fountains of the great deep were unloosed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.