
Selected Writings
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Arthur James Marshall Smith - prize-winning poet, essayist, influential anthologist, and critic - died in 1980. His last book, The Classic Shade: Selected Poems, on which Selected Writings is based, stands as his final intention in the world of literature.To this long out of print book the editor has added original material by Smith in which he defined and advanced modernism in Canadian writing. This edition also includes annotation, an extended introduction, and a bibliography.
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Michael Gnarowski, who knew A.J.M. Smith and Frank Scott, edited the second edition of New Provinces (1976), the groundbreaking anthology of Canadian Modernist poetry.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Classic Shade: Selected Poems
- Like An Old Proud King in A Parable
- A Hyacinth for Edith
- Shadows There Are
- Ode: On the Death of William Butler Yeats
- The Plot Against Proteus
- Le Vierge, le Vivace et le Bel Aujourdhui
- To a Young Poet
- Bird and Flower
- To the Christian Doctors
- Choros
- The Faithful Heart
- Chinoiserie
- To Jay Macpherson on Her Book of Poems
- To Anthea
- For Healing
- The Two Birds
- The Creek
- Swift Current
- Sea Cliff
- The Lonely Land
- Walking in a Field, Looking Down and Seeing a White Violet
- Wild Raspberry
- The Convolvulus
- May Song
- What Strange Enchantment
- The Fountain
- A Little Night Piece
- Field of Long Grass
- Field of Long Grass
- The Sorcerer
- The Mermaid
- Poor Innocent
- A Pastorale
- Ballade un Peu Banale
- Brigadier
- Angels Exist, and Sonnets Are Not Dead
- An Iliad for His Summer Sweetheart
- Thomas Moore and Sweet Annie
- The Country Lovers
- Far West
- Noctambule
- Resurrection of Arp
- A Portrait, and a Prophecy
- Stanzas Written on First Looking into Johnston's Auk3
- The Devil Take Her - and Them
- To Irving Layton, on His Love Poem to Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, then First Lady
- On the Appointment of Ralph Gustafson, Esq., as Poet in Residence at Bishop's University
- Poet in Residence, Bishop's University
- To Frank Scott, Esq., on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday
- The Taste of Space
- Souvenirs du Temps Perdu
- My Lost Youth
- Political Intelligence
- What the Emanation of Casey Jones Said to the Medium
- Son and Heir
- Cavalcade
- News of the Phoenix
- Ode: The Eumenides
- A Soldier's Ghost
- What is That Music High in the Air?
- The Bridegroom
- Prothalamium
- The Two Sides of a Drum
- To Henry Vaughan
- Canticle of St. John
- Calvary
- The Cry
- In Memoriam: E.J.P.
- In the Churchyard at South Durham, Quebec
- Metamorphosis
- The Wisdom of Old Jelly Roll
- My Death
- On Knowing Nothing
- Watching the Old Man Die
- The Archer
- Selected Prose
- Contemporary Poetry (1926)
- Wanted: Canadian Criticism the Canadian Forum, April 1928
- Manuscript Letter: Arthur Smith to Frank Scott (1934)
- A Rejected Preface to New Provinces (1936)
- Excerpt from the Introduction to The Book of Canadian Poetry: A Critical and Historical Anthology (1943)
- Excerpt from the Introduction to The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse: In English and French (1960)
- Notes
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