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A slice of Canada
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ISBN: 1487592612 9781487592615 9781487592660 1487592663 9781487592707 Year: 1967 Publisher: [Toronto, Ontario] Ottawa, Ontario

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Watson Kirkconnell is one of the most familiar figures in the world of Canadian letters. Educated at Queen's and Oxford, he has published several volumes of poetry and poetry translations, was the founding father and first chairman of the Humanities Research Council, a charter member and national president (1942-44, 1956-58) of the Canadian Authors Association, and has shared in university life for 45 years. He has been active in many other areas of public life; as one of the founders of the Prisoners' Aid Society (now the John Howard Society of Manitoba), a joint organizer of the Citizenship Branch, Ottawa, a founder and first president of the Canadian-Polish Society, as well as the Baptist Federation of Canada of which he was national president (1953-56). In widespread recognition of his work in these many fields Dr. Kirkonnell has received twelve honorary doctorates from universities in Canada, the United States, Hungary, and Germany, knighthoods from Poland and Iceland, and numerous awards from other countries. The chronicle of such a full and active career offers a valuable look at many aspects of Canadian life: in his memoirs Dr. Kirkonnell has avoided a merely chronological arrangement of his autobiography but sought rather to take various phases of the Canadian tradition and to analyse his experience of each down through the years. This Slice of Canada demonstrates the author's discerning faculty of observation and his close involvement, not only with the arts, but with education, religion, politics and other areas of Canadian life.

Awake the courteous echo
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ISBN: 148758928X 9781487589288 9780802052667 9781487592349 0802052665 148759089X Year: 1973 Publisher: [Toronto] [Buffalo, N.Y.] University of Toronto Press

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This Miltonic reference works is the third and final volume in a trilogy dealing with Miltonic analogues. It complements the author's previous compendia of analogues, The Celestial Cycle (on Paradise Lost) and That Invincible Samson (on Samson Agonistes). Thirty-seven years of research in the libraries of the world have unearthed on impressive array of analogues of Comus, Lycidas, and Paradise Regained; and the more important of these are now made available in Kirkconnell's English translation in Awake the Courteous Echo. The book includes 39 analogues of Comus, 102 of Lycidas, and 25 of Paradise Regained. These analogues range from the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh to those of Milton's contemporaries. Dr. Kirkconnell's initial concern is not with source hunting, but with analogues as analogues, the Jonsonian masque, the pastoral elegy, and the brief epic. The subtlety, complexity, and powerful originality of Milton's art are here for the reader to enjoy. The major analogues in languages other than English are translated in both verse and prose. Both specialists and students of Milton will find this a fascinating and valuable study.


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The celestial cycle
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ISBN: 1487589301 9781487589301 9781487592363 1487590911 Year: 1952 Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press

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An anthology of translated analogues, in whole or in part, on the theme of paradise lost. It is an indispensable resource for any serious student or scholar of Milton's Paradise Lost.


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Centennial tales and selected poems
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ISBN: 1487592604 1487592698 Year: 1965 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] : University of Toronto Press,

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An all-inclusive edition of the poetry of Watson Kirkonnell would run to some ten large volumes of original verse and translations. His original verse would fill two volumes the size of this one, and his translated verse-from Icelandic, Italian, Dutch, French, Magyar, Latin, Ukrainian and Polish-would fill 5,000 pages. No poet in the English-speaking tradition is more deeply grounded in world literature. The original poetry of Watson Kirkconnell has been primarily narrative in character: first, the twelve philosophically slanted books of his Spenserian epic, The Eternal Quest; then the seventeen vivid narratives in The Flying Bull, and Other Tales, a sort of Western echo of The Canterbury Tales; and finally the thirty narrative poems of his new Centennial Tales, many of which were written in 1964. These are framed about the history of Canada, and are written in honour of the nation's Centennial in 1967. They range from the coming of the first "Amerindians" from Asia about 30,000 B.C. to a possible atomic holocaust in A.D. 2000, and include poems on the Quebec Conference of 1864, the Vimy Memorial, the Italian Campaign and the Canadians in Cyprus. This volume also contains some lyrics from Dr. Kirkconnell's light opera, The Mod at Grand Pré, and the whole of his Greek-style drama, Let My People Go, with its setting in Egypt just before the Exodus and its issues in the present. The original poetry has been arranged in roughly the reverse of chronological order, while the translations are arranged according to the dates of publication.

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The celestial cycle : the theme of paradise lost in world literature with translations of the major analogues
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Year: 1952 Publisher: Toronto, Ont : University of Toronto Press,

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That invincible Samson : the theme of 'Samson Agonistes' in world literature with translations of the major analogues
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Year: 1964 Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto press,

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International aspects of unemployment
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Year: 1923 Publisher: London : G. Allen & Unwin,

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That invicible Samson: the theme of Samson Agonistes in world literature with translations of the major analogues
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The Celestial cycle: the theme of Paradise lost in world literature with translations of the major analogues
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Year: 1967 Publisher: New York

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