George Woodcock


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By George Woodcock
Published in Female Subjects & Male Plots. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 137 (Summer 1993): 123-123.
  • Shades of Right: Nativist and Fascist Politics in Canada: 1920-1940 by Martin Robin
  • Belonging: The Meaning and Future of Canadian Citizenship by William Kaplan (Editor)
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By George Woodcock
Published in Female Subjects & Male Plots. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 137 (Summer 1993): 126-126.
  • Rethinking the Future by Patricia Elliott (Editor)
  • A Little Bit of Thunder by Douglas Fetherling
Face of a River
By George Woodcock
Published in Canadian Literature 2 (Autumn 1959): 89-90.
  • The St. Lawrence by William Toye
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By George Woodcock
Published in Mothers & Daughters. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 109 (Summer 1986): 150.
  • A Trust Betrayed: The Keegstra Affair by David Berguson and Douglas Wertheimer
Personal Interest
By George Woodcock
Published in East Asian-Canadian Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 140 (Spring 1994) (Spring 1994): 102-104.
  • Margaret and Al: Margaret Laurence-Al Purdy. A Friendship in Letters by John Lennox (Editor)
Mr. Sam
By George Woodcock
Published in Nature, Politics, Poetics. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 136 (Spring 1993): 172-174.
  • Mr. Sam: The Life and Times of Samuel Bronfman by Michael Marrus
On the Verge
By W. H. New, George Woodcock, Eva-Marie Kröller and Laurence (Laurie) Ricou
Published in Native Writers & Canadian Writing. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 124-125 (Spring/Summer 1990): 388-389.
Milosz
By George Woodcock
Published in Slavic and East-European Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 120 (Spring 1989): 183-184.
  • Between Anxiety and Hope: The Poetry and Writing of Czeslaw Milosz by Edward Mozejko (Editor)
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By George Woodcock
Published in Magic & Other Realisms. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 116 (Spring 1988): 242-242.
  • A New Endeavour: Selected Political Essays by Michiel Horn and Frank Scott
Relations & Families
By George Woodcock
Published in Literature & the Visual Arts. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 113-114 (Summer/Autumn 1987): 235-239.
  • Time of Their Lives by John Nihmey and Stuart Foxman
  • The Tender Passion by Peter Gay
  • Images of Childhood by Anita Schorsch
  • Home: A Short History of and Idea by Witold Rybczynski
Fragments of Identity
By George Woodcock
Published in Atwood, Carrier, Grandbois, Lowry. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 112 (Spring 1987): 151-152.
  • The Mind of Ontario by Royce McGillivray
  • Understanding the Loyalists by J. M. Bumsted
  • Roots of Conflict by Douglas Edward Leach
O, Susanna!
By George Woodcock
Published in Mothers & Daughters. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 109 (Summer 1986): 101-103.
  • Susanna Moodie: Letters of a Lifetime by Carl Ballstadt (Editor), Elizabeth Hopkins (Editor) and Michael Peterman (Editor)
Small Voice of the Grass
By George Woodcock
Published in The Times Between. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 107 (Winter 1985): 174-175.
  • Hold the Rain in Your Hands: Poems New and Selected by Glen Sorestad (Author)
Mulberry Bush
By George Woodcock
Published in The Times Between. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 107 (Winter 1985): 149-152.
  • A Meeting of Streams: South Asian Canadian Literature by M. G. Vassanji (Editor)
  • The Toronto South Asian Review by M. G. Vassanji
  • Darkness by Bharati Mukherjee
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By George Woodcock
Published in Paradigms of Doubleness. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 104 (Spring 1985): 175-176.
  • Banting: A Biography by Michael Bliss
  • The Promised Land by Pierre Berton
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By George Woodcock
Published in B.C. Writers / Reviews Issue. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 102 (Autumn 1984): 194.
  • Joseph Howe, Vol. II: The Briton Becomes Canadian 1848-1873 by J. Murray Beck
Verse Into Poetry
By George Woodcock
Published in On Dennis Lee. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 98 (Autumn 1983): 96-98.
  • Giving Back Diamonds by Marilyn Bowering
  • Sucking-stones by John Smith
Heraclitean Knowledge
By George Woodcock
Published in Poetic Form. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 97 (Summer 1983): 163-166.
  • Bursting Into Song by Al (Alfred W) Purdy
  • New Poems by Henry Moscovitch
  • In a White Shirt by Bill Howell
  • Cantos North by Henry Beissel
Philosophers Not Kings
By George Woodcock
Published in Stories, Tales & Sketches from Life. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 94 (Autumn 1982): 164-165.
  • The Faces of Reason: An Essay on Philosophy and Culture in English Canada, 1850-1950 by Elizabeth Trott and Leslie Armour
Sightings of the Enemy
By George Woodcock
Published in Contemporary Quebec Fiction. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 88 (Spring 1981): 150-151.
  • Wyndham Lewis: A Revaluation by Jeffrey Meyers (Editor)
Millenarian Riel
By George Woodcock
Published in Psychological Fictions: Myth, Carr, Lowry. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 84 (Spring 1980): 116-118.
  • Louis 'David' Riel: "Prophet of the New World" by Thomas Flanagan
Carr: More than Meets the Eye
By George Woodcock
Published in Psychological Fictions: Myth, Carr, Lowry. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 84 (Spring 1980): 105-108.
  • The Art of Emily Carr by Doris Shadbolt
  • Emily Carr, A Biography by Maria Tippett
Returns and Distances
By George Woodcock
Published in Writing for Children. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 78 (Autumn 1978): 83-87.
  • A Visiting Distance by Patrick Anderson
  • Return to Canada by Patrick Anderson
Novels from Near and Far
By George Woodcock
Published in Exiles and Expatriates. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 73 (Summer 1977): 89-92.
  • The Invention of the World by Jack Hodgins
  • The Young in One Another's Arms by Jane Rule
  • Venus in Furs by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch (Author) and John Glassco (Translator)
  • The Master Mason's House by Paul P. Gubbins and Frederick Philip Grove
  • Price by Reshard Gool
From the Bulgarian
By George Woodcock
Published in Remembering Roderick Haig-Brown. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 71 (Winter 1976): 110-110.
  • The Balkan Range by Nikola Roussanoff (Editor) and John Robert Colombo (Editor)
Playing with Freezing Fire
By George Woodcock
Published in Themes and Variations in Criticism. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 70 (Autumn 1976): 84-91.
  • Selected Poems by Margaret Atwood
  • Wood Mountain Poems by Andrew Suknaski (Author)
  • On First Looking Down from Lions Gate Bridge by Andrew Suknaski
  • Beothuck Poems by Sid Stephen
  • Unborn Things: South American Poems by Patrick Lane (Author)
  • Turns & Other Poems by Richard Outram
  • Achilles' Navel by Doug Fetherling
  • Ice Age by Dorothy Livesay
The Ruralists
By George Woodcock
Published in Ultramarine – Hail and Farewell. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 64 (Spring 1975): 124-124.
  • The Rural Tradition: A Study of the Non-Fiction Prose Writers of the English Countryside by W. J. Keith
Purdy's Prelude and Other Poems
By George Woodcock
Published in Ultramarine – Hail and Farewell. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 64 (Spring 1975): 92-98.
  • Face by Seymour Mayne
  • Disasters of the Sun by Dorothy Livesay (Author)
  • The Age of the Bird by Pat Lowther
  • On the Bearpaw Sea by Al (Alfred W) Purdy (Author)
  • Blackfish by
  • Lions at her Face by Miriam Mandel
  • In Search of Owen Roblin by Al (Alfred W) Purdy (Author)
  • And the Dying Sky like Blood by Peter Stevens (Author)
  • Passages and other Poems by Eugene McNamara
  • Diving for the Body by Eugene McNamara
Poet and Poetaster
By George Woodcock
Published in Wilderness and Utopia. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 63 (Winter 1975): 85-89.
  • Tecumseh: A Drama by Charles Mair
  • Dreamland and Other Poems by Charles Mair
  • The Poems of Archibald Lampman by
Twilight Zones
By George Woodcock
Published in Contemporary Canadian Poets. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 60 (Spring 1974): 96-99.
  • Songs My Mother Taught Me by Audrey Thomas
  • One of My Marionettes by Tony Aspler
  • The Carbon Copy by Anthony Brennan (Author)
  • Schoolboy Rising by Nigell Foxell
As We See Ourselves and Others
By George Woodcock
Published in Lovers and Losers. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 59 (Winter 1974): 95-99.
  • I Chose Canada by Joey Smallwood
  • One Damn Thing after Another by Hugh Garner
  • Hugh Garner by Doug Fetherling
  • Bethune by Roderick Stewart
  • Stanfield by Geoffrey Stevens
  • Dobryd by Ann Charney
Cycles of Creation
By George Woodcock
Published in Poets Past and Future. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 56 (Spring 1973): 97-101.
  • Sculpture of the Eskimo by George Swinton
  • Thomas Davies in Early Canada by R. H. Hubbard
  • In a Sacred Manner we Live by Edward S. Curtis
  • Portraits from North American Life by Edward S. Curtis
  • The Barn: A Vanishing Landmark in North America by Eric Arthur and Dudley Witney
The Modernists and Their Precursors
By George Woodcock
Published in Poetic Occasions. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 54 (Autumn 1972): 97-101.
  • Vorticism and the English Avant-Garde by William C. Wees
  • The Pound Era by Hugh Kenner
  • Henry James: 1901-1916 by Leon Edel
  • Imagination Indulged by Elliott B. Gose, Jr. (Author)
Canada's October Days
By George Woodcock
Published in Anna, Susanna, and Catharine. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 51 (Winter 1972): 73-77.
  • Rumours of War by Ron Haggart and Aubrey Golden
  • The Revolution Script by Brian Moore
  • Bleeding Hearts . . . Bleeding Country by Denis Smith
  • White Niggers of America by Pierre Vallieres and Joan Pinkham
  • Quebec in Question by Marcel Rioux
Critics and Creators
By George Woodcock
Published in Views of Novelists. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 49 (Summer 1971): 67-71.
  • Nietzsche in England, 1890-1914 by David S. Thatcher
  • The Psychic Mariner: A Reading of the Poems of D. H. Lawrence by Tom Marshall
  • Wordsworth and the Great System by Geoffrey Durrant
A Swan Among Geese
By George Woodcock
Published in Dorothy Livesay – Poetry of Politics and Love. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 47 (Winter 1971): 88-91.
  • Hunger Trace by Adrienne Clarkson
  • A World Turned Turtle by John Cornish
  • House of Hate by Percy Janes
  • Ceremony of Innocence by Ruth Nichols

Editorials by George Woodcock

Last Pages by George Woodcock

Articles by George Woodcock

New Wave in Publishing
By James Lorimer, Mel Hurtig, Shirley Gibson, Michael Macklem, Victor Coleman, George Woodcock, Dennis Lee and David N. Robinson
Published in Publish Canadian. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 57 (Summer 1973): 50-64.

Poetry by George Woodcock

Opinions by George Woodcock

On the Verge
By George Woodcock, Laurence (Laurie) Ricou and Eva-Marie Kröller
Published in Discourse in Early Canada. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 131 (Winter 1991): 263-269.
On the Verge
By W. H. New, George Woodcock and Louis (L. T.) Cornelius
Published in The Languages of Poetry. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 129 (Summer 1991): 236-237.
On the Verge
By George Woodcock, Laurence (Laurie) Ricou and Eva-Marie Kröller
Published in Background, Foreground. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 127 (Winter 1990): 204-205.
On the Verge
By W. H. New, George Woodcock and Eva-Marie Kröller
Published in Poets’ Words. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 115 (Winter 1987): 290-294.

Book Reviews of George Woodcock's Works

The Metis in the Canadian West
By Marcel Giraud and George Woodcock
Reviewed in Le Métis Canadien by Maurice Lebel
Collected Poems
By George Woodcock
Reviewed in Selection by David Staines
The Benefactor
By George Woodcock
Reviewed in On Competence by Terry Goldie
The Doukhobors
By Ivan Avakumovic and George Woodcock
Reviewed in Minority History by Donald Stainsby