Selections from Canadian Poets by Edward H. Dewart PAPERBACK 9780802061768

Selections from Canadian Poets\nby Edward H. Dewart\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Edward H. Dewart\nTitle: Selections from Canadian Poets\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: poetry and poets\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press\nPublication year: 1973\nISBN-13: 9780802061768\nISBN-10: 0802061761\nRRP: \u00A332.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nSelections from Canadian Poets set an important precedent when it was published in 1864. It was the first anthology of native Canadian poetry and was compiled, as Edward Hartlet Dewart explained, in order to 'rescue from oblivion some of the floating pieces of Canadian authorship worthy of preservation in a more permanent form ...' This anthology, like any other, reflects the tastes of the anthologist and the t.