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Author Kirkconnell, Watson, 1895-1977, author.

Title Centennial tales and selected poems
Published [Toronto] Published for Acadia University by University of Toronto Press [1965]

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 530 pages) portrait
Contents Centennial tales: -- The Alaska crossing -- Leif speaks to Freydis -- John Cabot -- Henry Hudson -- The seven oaks massacre -- The Quebec conference -- The riding song of the Mounties -- The lay of Elijah -- My name is legion -- The coronary muse: -- Drink to me only-with maalox -- Five milligrams are best -- The mummies -- The bird with the leaky beak -- Let my people go -- From the mod at grand pre: -- We're allergic to you English -- Along the tides of mimi -- Miscellaneous poems: -- The road of Bethlehem -- Nova scotia suite -- Aesop up-to-date -- Manitoba symphony -- On the death of Marshal Joseph Pilsudski -- Draza dies a martyr -- From the flying bull and other tales: -- Usquedunk, the frog-king -- A latter-day job
The magyar violinist -- The jobless gaolbird -- The eternal quest: -- The way of a scientist -- The way of a jurist -- The way of a lover -- The way of a worshipper -- From Canada to Iceland -- From the tide of life and other poems: -- The wounded dog -- High winds -- Selected verse translations: European elegies: -- Animae Rerum -- Lacrimae Rerum -- Bird song -- Night -- Time -- Devouring time -- The hatefulness of death -- Written in new cemetery -- A churchyard flower -- The sun-dirge Three springs -- Unrest -- Love knows but loss -- To Isabel -- Her faith -- Grief -- Evening peace -- From the north American book of Icelandic verse (1930): -- I sail in the fall -- From the Magyar Muse (1933) -- From a skald in Canada
From poems by Adam Mickiewicx(1944): -- To my Russian friends -- Before two portraits of my mother -- From Miscellaneous periodicals: -- On the birth of Christ -- Treachery -- The amulet
Summary "The poems in this collection are framed about the history of Canada, and are written in honour of the nation's Centennial in 1967. 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"--Publisher
Bibliography "Bibliography of published verse": pages 529-530
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Subject Canadian poetry -- 20th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Canadian poetry
SUBJECT Canada -- History -- Poetry
Subject Canada
Genre/Form poetry.
Drama
Historical poetry
History
Narrative poetry
Poetry
Historical poetry.
Narrative poetry.
Poetry.
Drama.
Poésie historique.
Poésie narrative.
Poésie.
Théâtre.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781487592608
1487592604
9781487592653
1487592655
9781487592691
1487592698