Highways of Canadian Literature

expressly at my solicitation, by Mr. Donald G. French, whose wide and intimate knowledge of the forms, technics, and history of Canadian fiction is recognized throughout Canada....

Social and Spiritual Bases 33 The Social and Spiritual Bases of Canadian Literature—The Puritan and Loyalist Migrations—The Significance of the Scots Migration—The Primacy of No...

Incidental Pioneer Literature 44 The Incidental Pre-Confederation Literature of Canada—Alexander Henry’s Travels—Mrs. Brooke’s Novels—Mrs. Jameson’s Nature-Studies—The Émigré Pr...

Joseph Howe 55 The Nativistic Literature of Canada—Joseph Howe as Founder of the Independent Prose, Creative Journalism, Political Literature, Literary and Forensic Oratory—as P...

Thomas Chandler Haliburton 63 The Nativistic Literature of Canada—Thomas Chandler Haliburton—First Systematic Humorist of the Anglo-Saxon peoples—Creator of a New Type of Satiri...

Duncan Campbell Scott 159 Influences on his Work—Old World Culture—Austere Intellectualism—Music and Painting—Association with Lampman—Scott, Campbell, and Lampman compared—Infl...

Parker and Scott, F. G. 210 Parker as a Sonneteer of Spiritual Love—Origin and Theme of a Lover’s Diary—Musical and Colorful Lyrical Verse—Scott’s Poetry a Reflection of his Per...

Novelists 241 The Fictionists of the Systematic School—The Historical Romancers—Lighthall—Saunders—Parker—Marquis—Maclennan and McIlwraith—Agnes C. Laut—Wilfred Campbell—Charles...

Short Story Writers 258 The Short Story Fictionists of the Systematic School—E. W. Thomson—Duncan Campbell Scott—Charles G. D. Roberts—Gilbert Parker—Ernest Thompson Seton—W. A....

Fiction Writers 298 The Community Novel—Montgomery—Keith—McClung—Le Rossignol. Institutional Fiction—Packard—Sullivan—Duncan—Wallace and Others. Realistic Romance—Service—Cody—S...

To write properly a Synoptic History of Canadian Literature, the historian must first evaluate extant Canadian verse and prose from the point of view of the Whole. Secondly, he...

THE SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL BASES OF CANADIAN LITERATURE—THE PURITAN AND LOYALIST MIGRATIONS—THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SCOTS MIGRATION— THE PRIMACY OF NOVA SCOTIA IN THE CREATIVE LIT...

THE INCIDENTAL PRE-CONFEDERATION LITERATURE OF CANADA—ALEXANDER HENRY’S TRAVELS—MRS. BROOKE’S NOVELS—MRS. JAMESON’S NATURE-STUDIES—THE ÉMIGRÉ PRE-CONFEDERATION LITERATURE OF CAN...

THE NATIVISTIC LITERATURE OF CANADA—JOSEPH HOWE AS FOUNDER OF THE INDEPENDENT PROSE, CREATIVE JOURNALISM, POLITICAL LITERATURE, LITERARY AND FORENSIC ORATORY—AS PATRIOTIC, DESCR...

It is the chief glory of Thomas Chandler Haliburton, born at Windsor, Nova Scotia, in 1796, that he was _the first systematic humorist and satirist of the Anglo-Saxon peoples_....

Nativistic romantic fiction in Canada begins with the historical novels of Major John Richardson. In 1832 he published his _Wacousta; or, The Prophecy_; and in 1840 its sequel,...

The years 1860, 1861, and 1862 may be regarded as the most significant in the literary history of Canada. In the year 1860 were born Charles George Douglas Roberts and Charles W...

Whether Charles G. D. Roberts had a genuine formative influence on Canadian literature, particularly Canadian poetry, or whether he should be regarded merely as ‘the eldest brot...

In 1887 Charles G. D. Roberts had, with his poem beginning ‘O Child of Nations’ and again with his magniloquent _Ode to the Canadian Confederacy_, issued a ‘call’ to the Canadia...

Bliss carman is the only Canadian-born poet who reasonably and inevitably challenges comparison with English and United States poets of admitted distinction. He is, in the conti...

INFLUENCES ON HIS WORK—OLD WORLD CULTURE—AUSTERE INTELLECTUALISM —MUSIC AND PAINTING—ASSOCIATION WITH LAMPMAN—SCOTT, CARMAN, AND LAMPMAN COMPARED—INFLUENCE OF ENGLISH POETS—TECH...

In the early nineties of the last century three young Canadian poets, who were employed in the Civil Service Departments at Ottawa, were closely associated in a systematic way a...

The name, life, and poetry of Pauline Johnson affect the heart and imagination with the arresting pathos which attaches to the imperishable memory of a belated and beautiful spi...

PARKER AS A SONNETEER OF SPIRITUAL LOVE—ORIGIN AND THEME OF A LOVER’S DIARY—MUSICAL AND COLORFUL LYRICAL VERSE—SCOTT’S POETRY A REFLECTION OF HIS PERSONALITY—DISTINGUISHED AS TH...

It is proper to distinguish Roberts, Lampman, Carman, Campbell, Duncan Campbell Scott, Frederick George Scott, and Pauline Johnson as the ‘major’ poets of the First Renaissance...

Canadian Literature is rich—not relatively but absolutely—in Dirges, Epicedes, Elegies, Threnodies, and Elegiac Monodies. That Canadian Elegiac Monodies, or long ‘In Memoriam’ p...

THE FICTIONISTS OF THE SYSTEMATIC SCHOOL—THE HISTORICAL ROMANCERS —LIGHTHALL—SAUNDERS—PARKER—MARQUIS—MACLENNAN AND McILWRAITH— AGNES C. LAUT—WILFRED CAMPBELL—CHARLES G. D. ROBER...

There is, on this continent, a literary tradition that Edgar Allan Poe is the creator of the short story. The truth is that Poe applied a new method to the short narrative or pr...

The Canadian _voyageur_ and _habitant_, the lumberman, and peasant of French Canada are ‘children of nature’—human, simple, shy, warm-hearted, honest, and manly. They were not a...

Not ineptly, though somewhat jocosely, we may group Canadian Poets in the Post-Confederation period, from 1887 to 1907, into three Schools, and label them with characteristic so...

We call the period beginning with the publication of Marjorie Pickthall’s first volume of verse, _Drift of Pinions_ (1913), and on to the present, the Restoration or Second Rena...

THE COMMUNITY NOVEL—MONTGOMERY—KEITH—MCCLUNG—LE ROSSIGNOL. INSTITUTIONAL FICTION—PACKARD—SULLIVAN—DUNCAN—WALLACE AND OTHERS. REALISTIC ROMANCE—SERVICE—CODY—STEAD, ETC. HISTORICA...

Arthur stringer, novelist and lyric poet, showed versatility and considerable power in imaginative construction when, in 1903, he published a volume of two dramatic poems or sol...

The name and work of Thomas Chandler Haliburton as a satirist or humorist so over-shadowed the names and works of other Canadian humorists that it is a belief, both in foreign c...

Although Canada is relatively rich in Poetic Drama, there is no evidence of a developed Stage Drama. Part of the literary future of the country lies in the development of native...

It is a literary phenomenon by itself that the best or most popular of the inspirational and the commemorative war verse by permanently resident _émigrés_ or native-born Canadia...

A hymn is a form of sacred lyrical literature. It must be popular literature, but not necessarily pure poetry or permanent literature. A hymn is properly defined not by what it...

In an old country, like England, which long has had established standards of taste and refined artistry, literary criticism is a fine art. The essays in criticism by Coleridge,...

Canadian essays, familiar studies of life and manners, or essays in _belles lettres_, are too meagre in quantity and too ephemeral or slight in aesthetic substance as yet to be...

Every anthology of national literature must be critically appreciated from the point of view of the aim of the author. Properly, according to the roots of the word anthology, ca...

The question: Are Newspapers and Magazines literature? has various answers, negative and affirmative. There cannot be any doubt that Newspapers and Magazines can be literature,...

Two general conditions have made the writing of ‘true history’ in Canada an impossibility. On the personal side, there were the lack of adequate culture, of a sense of the histo...