Mimic Fires: Accounts of Early Long Poems on Canada

by D.M.R. Bentley

Bentley includes eighteen long poems by writers with first-hand experience of Canada, including Henry Kelsey, Thomas Cary, John Strachan, Thomas Moore, Oliver Goldsmith, John Richardson, Joseph Howe, William Kirby, Isabella Valancy Crawford, and Archibald Lampman. His commentaries offer a wealth of vital information on each poem, such as its place in the Canadian tradition, its prose sources, incidents and people from whom the poet drew inspiration,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773512004
• ISBN13: 9780773512009
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 368 Pages