Once There Were Giants: The Modern Montreal Poets Who Set Out to Build a National Literature

by David O'Rourke

When Patrick Anderson, P.K. Page, F.R. Scott and others set up Preview Magazine, they were doing more than creating a vehicle to publish their high modernist poetry, which they were having difficulties publishing elsewhere. They were taking the first steps towards consciously building a Canadian literature. When John Sutherland established First Statement, he was taking the next step -- publishing Louis Dudek and Irving Layton, poets from Montreal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1770864695
• ISBN13: 9781770864696
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Cormorant Books
• Length: 392 Pages