English 9208
Canadian Poetry to the First World War
Instructor: Professor David Bentley.
Winter Half Course.
Using the lenses of aesthetics, politics, and economics this course will trace the evolution of what became Canadian literature from the writings of explorers and fur traders to the Second World War. Although poetry will be a primary focus, attention will also be paid to a selection of short fiction and to visual manifestations of aesthetic and economic ideas. Among the writers examined would be Henry Kelsey, Oliver Goldsmith, Joseph Howe, Susanna Moodie, Charles G.D. Roberts, Archibald Lampman, Duncan Campbell Scott, L.M. Montgomery, and Stephen Leacock.
