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Poetry Canadian

The Mountain Road

Poems

by (author) George Woodcock

Publisher
Goose Lane Editions
Initial publish date
Jan 1980
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780920110980
    Publish Date
    Jan 1980
    List Price
    $5.95

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Description

An early collection from the founder of Canadian Literature containing poems divided into four collections, excluding the preface and epilogue poems, named Bestiary, Mythology, Homage, and Anima.

About the author

George Woodcock (1912-1995) is one of Canada's best-known and most prolific authors. He was born in Winnipeg and educated in England, where he socialized with some of the century's most prominent writers and intellectuals including Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Herbert Read and T.S. Eliot. He returned to Canada in 1949 and taught at the University of British Columbia for many years. In 1959, he founded the journal Canadian Literature. His contribtution to Canadian culture is immeasurable; he either wrote or edited over one-hundred books including The Crystal Spirit, his Governor-Genral's award-winning biography of Orwell; Gabriel Dumont, another bestselling biography; and Anarchism a guide to the political philosophy which continues to be read around the world. His wide range of writing includes literary criticism, poetry, travel writing, plays, social history, biography, politics and essays.

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