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Complete Poems Of George Whalley
George Whalley
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Hardback. The poems of a Canadian modernist best known for his investigations into poetic process. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 680.
An eminent Canadian man of letters, scholar, naval officer and secret intelligence agent, CBC scriptwriter, musician, biographer, and translator, George Whalley (1915-1983) was also a gifted poet whose work spans five decades. Along with his major critical work, Poetic Process, and his superb biography, The Legend of John Hornby, Whalley's poetry is an important contribution to the emergence and development of twentieth-century modernism. The Complete Poems of George Whalley is the first collection of Whalley's entire poetic oeuvre. It contains the previously published work from his two books of poetry, Poems 1939-1944 and No Man An Island, as well ... Read more
An eminent Canadian man of letters, scholar, naval officer and secret intelligence agent, CBC scriptwriter, musician, biographer, and translator, George Whalley (1915-1983) was also a gifted poet whose work spans five decades. Along with his major critical work, Poetic Process, and his superb biography, The Legend of John Hornby, Whalley's poetry is an important contribution to the emergence and development of twentieth-century modernism. The Complete Poems of George Whalley is the first collection of Whalley's entire poetic oeuvre. It contains the previously published work from his two books of poetry, Poems 1939-1944 and No Man An Island, as well ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773548039
SKU
V9780773548039
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About George Whalley
Michael John DiSanto is associate professor of English at Algoma University and the author of Under Conrad' s Eyes: The Novel as Criticism.
Reviews for Complete Poems Of George Whalley
" George Whalley is a figure of substantial importance in the history of Canadian literature and scholarship; his influence and inspiration are acknowledged by prominent contemporary writers such as Michael Ondaatje and Elizabeth Hay. Unprecedented in its detail, this lucid and well-researched account brings Whalley' s work the attention it so richly deserves." Zailig Pollock, Trent University