Centennial Tales and Selected Poems Kirkconnell Paperback 9781487592691

Centennial Tales and Selected PoemsAuthor(s): Watson Kirkconnell\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781487592691, 978-1487592691\nSynopsis\nAn all-inclusive edition of the poetry of Watson Kirkonnell would run to some ten large volumes of original verse and translations. His original verse would fill two volumes the size of this one, and his translated versefrom Icelandic, Italian, Dutch, French, Magyar, Latin, Ukrainian and Polishwould fill 5,000 pages. No poet in the English-speaking tradition is more deeply grounded in world literature.\n\n The original poetry of Watson Kirkconnell has been primarily narrative in character: first, the twelve philosophically slanted books of his Spenserian epic, The Eternal Quest; then the seventeen vivid narratives in The Flying Bull, and Other Tales, a sort of Western echo of The Canterbury Tales; and finally the thirty narrative poems of his new Centennial Tales, ma.