|
Last Updated: Jun 23rd, 2009 - 21:46:55 |
Essay
The Role of Little Magazines in Canada
The little magazine is a recognizable and peculiar phenomenon associated with the growth of the modern poetry movement in this century. In Canada, this type of magazine can be said to have appeared only after 1940, although a number of forerunners having some claim to be ranked as little magazines appeared earlier. It is with the period after 1940 that the kind of literary activity and movement‑poetry that had arisen in England just before World War I and in America during the 1920s began to flourish in Canada.
Jun 24, 2009, 00:31
Essay
Academic Literature
This arty literature—or, if you like, true culture—is finding the going hard, under the economic pressure of modern life. The artist therefore running into the modern cloister, uncloistered as it is, the university, where he can find partial shelter. But neither blue-blood artist nor the cloistered type of university seems to be destined to survive for long; in a last desperate effort, they are clinging together for comfort.
Jun 24, 2009, 00:01
Essay
What Do You Have Against Myth?
In the beginning, children, youths and women died on the altar. According to Arnold Toynbee, “child sacrifice was a custom that several kings of Israel and Judah practiced in common with other peoples in Canaan.”[1] You can read in Leviticus 18:21: “You shall not surrender any of your children to Molech….”
Jun 24, 2009, 00:01
Essay
The Idea of Art
We’ve all heard of “the death of God,” as announced by Nietzsche—the death of the idea of God. What I want to consider here is the prospect of “the death of art,” the death of the idea of art which is being proclaimed today.
Jun 24, 2009, 00:01
Essay
Patterns of Recent Canadian Poetry
In a recent count of book‑publishing poets writing in Canada in English I was able to put down no less than fifty names. In making up this list, simply in the act of writing down names in their geographical, chronological, or various literary orders, a series of patterns seemed to emerge, a map of the current literary scene. Looking at these patterns and groups, one could easily see relations between them; our poetry is more self‑contained and unified at present than either English or American poetry can be…
Jun 24, 2009, 00:01
Essay
Oů sont les jeunes?
Poetry in Canada needs a new start. To the young, the field is wide open. Our younger poets are getting grey about the temples. The work of the forties is by now old and yellow: it was a good beginning, but not yet the real thing. There is now a ready audience for any young writer with something fresh and bouncing to say, someone with a new technique, a vision, or a gift for making art out of matters of fact. But where are the young? Where is the “new” generation?
Jun 24, 2009, 00:01
Essay
The State of Canadian Poetry: 1954
Poetry today is not a popular art; Canadian poetry is even less known than English poetry in general; but as art, it is poetry, not prose, which will in the end prove to be the successful literary medium of this century. We should by now begin to realize—what our newspaper reviewers don't even suspect—that the vast majority of books, novels mainly, that reach the public nowadays, have no real pretension and can never have any place as literature, as permanent art.
Jun 24, 2009, 00:01
Essay
Sermon on the Mont: Louis Dudek’s Post-Modernist Cantos (I-VI)
Dudek was able to sustain this literalist faith in poetry and Pound because he was stubborn by nature and because that faith settled in early in his life and in a broader, more dependable, more socially acceptable and ultimately more influential manifestation than Ezra Pound.
Jun 23, 2009, 17:09
|
