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Current Issue: #214 (Autumn 2012)

Canadian Literature's Issue 214 (Autumn 2012) is now available. The issue features articles by Germaine Warkentin, Susan Gingell, Deanna Reder, Allison Hargreaves, Daniel Heath Justice, Kristina Fagan Bidwell, Jo-Ann Episkenew, Andrea King, Joanne Leow, and Ana María Fraile, and new Canadian poetry & book reviews.

Issue archives

Cover of issue #1

#1 (Summer 1959)

Issue PDF available

Editorial

George Woodcock

Articles

Roderick Haig-Brown

A. J. M. Smith

F. W. Watt

Gerard Tougas

Hugo McPherson

E. W. Mandel

Book Reviews

Reviews section PDF available

Three Canadian Poets: A View from England (p. 69 - 72)

by Roy Fuller

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Red Carpet for the Sun by Irving Layton
  2. The Deficit Made Flesh by John Glassco
  3. The Wandering World by Ronald Bates

Subjects: Poetry

New Biography in Canada (p. 72 - 75)

by George Woodcock

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Frontenac: the Courtier Governor by W. J. Eccles
  2. Nehru: A Political Biography by Michael Brecher
  3. Willliam Lyon Mackenzie King by R MacGregor Dawson

Subjects: Biography, Life Writing

A Gentlewoman of Upper Canada (p. 75 - 77)

by Susanna Moodie

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Life in the Clearings by Susanna Moodie

Coyote and Stag (p. 78 - 79)

by Sheila Watson

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Double Hook by Sheila Watson
  2. Walk through the Valley by Edward McCourt

An After-Glance at MacLennan (p. 80 - 81)

by Hugh MacLennan

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Watch that Ends the Night by Hugh MacLennan

Love, Faith and Truth (p. 81 - 83)

by Mary Elizabeth Bayer

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Faces of Love by Mary Elizabeth Bayer
  2. Poems by Michael Collie
  3. The Heart is Fire by Douglas Lochhead

Bittersweet Mask (p. 83 - 84)

by George Johnston

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Cruising Auk by George Johnston

A Country's Painter (p. 84 - 86)

by A. Y. Jackson

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Painter's Country by A. Y. Jackson

Portrait of an Actor (p. 87)

by Leslie Ruth Howard

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Quite Remarkable Father by Leslie Ruth Howard

For the Eyes of Children (p. 87 - 90)

by S. E. Read

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Canadian Portraits. Geologists and Prospectors by Margaret Mason Shaw
  2. Ian of Red River by Ragnhildur Guttormsson
  3. Man from St. Malo by Robert D. Ferguson
  4. My First History of Canada by Donalda Dickie

Subjects: Historiography

An Omission Corrected (p. 90 - 91)

by R. E. Watters

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Check List of Canadian Literature and Background Materials by R. E. Watters

Humanism at Bay? (p. 91 - 92)

by Paul West

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Fossils of Piety: Literary Humanism in Decline by Paul West

Opinions & Notes

Dwight MacDonald

R. J. Baker



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