Saul and Selected Poems by Charles Heavysege PAPERBACK 9780802062628

Saul and Selected Poems\nby Charles Heavysege\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Charles Heavysege\nTitle: Saul and Selected Poems\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: poetry and poets\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press\nPublication year: 1976\nISBN-13: 9780802062628\nISBN-10: 0802062628\nRRP: \u00A329.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nSaul and Selected Poems is an original and useful introduction to the work and poetic personality of Charles Heavysege (1816-76), an important but currently neglected nineteenth-century Canadian writer. Heavysege was handicapped by a limited education and a lack of public support, yet nonetheless established himself in Great Britain and America as the 'leading intellect of [the] Dominion' in a period when native literature.