George Woodcock: Collected editorials from Canadian Literature
Canadian Literature proudly presents our first ebook: George Woodcock: Collected editorials from Canadian Literature.
Compiled and edited by Canadian Literature’s Glenn Deer (Associate Editor) and Matthew Gruman (Marketing and Communications), this collection contains all the editorials George Woodcock wrote during his tenure as editor and Balancing the Yin and the Yang,
written as a guest editorial in 1992. Also included are Alan Twigg’s In Praise of an Omnivorous Intelligence
and Glenn Deer’s Alive to Unfashionable Possibilities: Reading Woodcock’s Collected Editorials
—two tributes written specifically for this edition.
George Woodcock: Collected editorials from Canadian Literature is available in the EPUB (list of supported devices) and PDF formats.
“Canadian Literature wishes to establish no clan, little or large. It will not adopt a narrowly academic approach, nor will it try to restrict its pages to any school of criticism or any class of writers. It is published by a university, but many of its present and future contributors live and work outside academic circles, and long may they continue to do so, for the independent men and women of letters are the solid core of any mature literature. Good writing, writing that says something fresh and valuable on literature in Canada is what we seek, no matter where it originates. It can be in English or in French, and it need not necessarily be by Canadians, since we intend to publish the views of writers from south of the border or east of the Atlantic, who can observe what is being produced here from an external and detached viewpoint.”
—George Woodcock, First Issue of Canadian Literature
(1959).
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Table of Contents
In Praise of an Omnivorous Intelligence
by Alan TwiggAlive to Unfashionable Possibilities: Reading Woodcock’s Collected Editorials
by Glenn DeerFirst Issue of Canadian Literature.
Canadian Literature #1, Summer 1959Aeropagitica re-written.
Canadian Literature #2, Autumn 1959A Time of Projects.
Canadian Literature #3, Winter 1960On the Cultivation of Laurels.
Canadian Literature #4, Spring 1960Summer Thought.
Canadian Literature #5, Summer 1960Honours and Awards.
Canadian Literature #6, Autumn 1960A Record Writ in Air.
Canadian Literature #7, Winter 1961Under Seymour Mountain.
Canadian Literature #8, Spring 1961Shoots from an Old Tree.
Canadian Literature #9, Summer 1961The Muse of Politics.
Canadian Literature #10, Autumn 1961Remote Reflections.
Canadian Literature #11, Winter 1962Reflections in the Chartroom.
Canadian Literature #12, Spring 1962Celebrations of Harvest.
Canadian Literature #13, Summer 1962Cautious Inevitability.
Canadian Literature #14, Autumn 1962Smith’s Hundred.
Canadian Literature #15, Winter 1963Salt and Savour.
Canadian Literature #16, Spring 1963A Spectre is Haunting Canada.
Canadian Literature #17, Summer 1963A Commonwealth of Literatures.
Canadian Literature #18, Autumn 1963Titanic, but Not Olympian.
Canadian Literature #19, Winter 1964Problems of Equilibrium.
Canadian Literature #20, Spring 1964On the Divide.
Canadian Literature #21, Summer 1964Uncommercial Voices.
Canadian Literature #22, Autumn 1964Surveyors and Natural Historians.
Canadian Literature #23, Winter 1965Canadian Biography.
Canadian Literature #24, Spring 1965Trans-Pacific Greetings: Meanjin‘s 100th Issue.
Canadian Literature #25, Summer 1965Biographical First Fruits.
Canadian Literature #28, Spring 1966Paperbacks and Respectable Pickpockets.
Canadian Literature #29, Summer 1966George Kuthan.
Canadian Literature #30, Autumn 1966Canadian Literature and the Centennial.
Canadian Literature #31, Winter 1967To Other Editors.
Canadian Literature #32, Spring 1967Preface to a Symposium.
Canadian Literature #33, Summer 1967Expanding Vistas.
Canadian Literature #34, Autumn 1967About Biographies.
Canadian Literature #36, Spring 1968Awards and Initiatives.
Canadian Literature #37, Summer 1968World in Microcosm.
Canadian Literature #38, Autumn 1968Momaco Revisited.
Canadian Literature #35, Winter 1968Centrifugal Publishing.
Canadian Literature #39, Winter 1969Sparrows and Eagles.
Canadian Literature #40, Spring 1969Getting away with Survival.
Canadian Literature #41, Summer 1969An Absence of Utopias.
Canadian Literature #42, Autumn 1969Arts in the Politician’s Eye.
Canadian Literature #43, Winter 1970The Absorption of Echoes.
Canadian Literature #44, Spring 1970Permutations of Politics.
Canadian Literature #45, Summer 1970The Frontiers of Literature.
Canadian Literature #46, Autumn 1970New Directions in Publishing.
Canadian Literature #47, Winter 1971New Trends in Publishing (2).
Canadian Literature #48, Spring 1971Criticism and Other Arts.
Canadian Literature #49, Summer 1971Swarming of Poets.
Canadian Literature #50, Autumn 1971The Craft of History.
Canadian Literature #51, Winter 1972Give The Corporation a Compass!.
Canadian Literature #52, Spring 1972Or Every Bellows Burst…
Canadian Literature #53, Summer 1972Limits of Taste and Tolerance.
Canadian Literature #54, Autumn 1972Horizon of Survival.
Canadian Literature #55, Winter 1973Periodical Precariousness.
Canadian Literature #56, Spring 1973Publishing Present.
Canadian Literature #57, Summer 1973New-Old Critics.
Canadian Literature #58, Autumn 1973Trapping the Bird of Love.
Canadian Literature #59, Winter 1974How a Land Grows Old.
Canadian Literature #60, Spring 1974When Did it All Begin?.
Canadian Literature #61, Summer 1974Premonitions of Mrs. Porter.
Canadian Literature #62, Autumn 1974Changing Patrons.
Canadian Literature #63, Winter 1975Tasting the Castalian Waters.
Canadian Literature #64, Spring 1975Victories and Farewells.
Canadian Literature #65, Summer 1975Valedictions.
Canadian Literature #66, Autumn 1975Manners of Criticism.
Canadian Literature #67, Winter 1976Maritime Cadences.
Canadian Literature #68-69, Spring/Summer 1976Historians and Biographers.
Canadian Literature #70, Autumn 1976Pride of Place and Past.
Canadian Literature #71, Winter 1976Playing Favorites.
Canadian Literature #72, Spring 1977Massey’s Harvest.
Canadian Literature #73, Summer 1977Balancing the Yin and the Yang.
Canadian Literature #133, Summer 1992